What a horrible week of weather we’ve had! And it’s really been making me thoroughly miserable and I am beginning to wonder if this rain will ever stop and if we’ll ever get our summer. Central areas of the country are flooded (with local rodents making for the high ground in some places, I hear), [...]

THANK YOU to all of those who have sent me messages of sympathy. It was very much appreciated even though I didn’t repy to you - hopefully I will rectify that soon. On Friday, I went into the hospital to see Lee and she is happy to cover me for the day of the funeral. Billy has [...]

You know how I’ve been so worried about my Nan with her recent illness? (The last I heard was that she would be going back to her nursing home as her chest infection was gone, and they felt the home could work on the not eating/drinking.) Well last night, Billy received a call to say [...]

I don’t think there are quite words to describe the extent of my pride in our young players last night. Watching the Holland v England U21′s game turned out to be a fantastic choice! For the first 20 minutes or so, I was watching and waiting for the first Dutch goal as they seemed to [...]

Wow, what a game the U21 England v Serbia match turned out to be! The racism aimed at Nedum Onouha was outrageous and I thought he was so mature and dignified in his handling of it – well done Ned. I just cannot work out if these people really believe this rubbish or whether it is [...]

On Friday morning I had to pop up to the hospital, and I went and saw Lee to give her an update on my Nan’s progress (no further news to relate by the way), and my manager was also there so we ended up having a little conference about a few things – which I [...]

Good news! My Nan seems to be recovering from the chest infection now, though she still isn’t eating or drinking, so she still needs her IV fluids. I’ve gone so far as to unpack my bag (eek!) and to start to concentrate on what’s going on here. Fingers crossed. I went to my Rags Sharqi [...]

Well, it is now Wednesday morning, and I’m none the wiser regarding my Nan’s condition or progress. It’s driving me round the twist! I managed to work yesterday, but every time the phone rang, I wondered if it was mum with news, and I was particularly on alert for a call for the hour that [...]

Having got things done on Monday and Tuesday, I knew I’d have a busy week ending, with my usual manic Wednesday, and working on Friday and Saturday, but nevertheless, the weekend should bring us our first chance to stop and draw breath, and we planned to sit with the calendar and sort out our summer plans. [...]

Sunday morning was absolutely gorgeous weather-wise, and we thought we’d have a BBQ in the evening, as it was Raji’s last day with us and it would be a nice family thing to do. We were looking forward to relaxing in the garden (ignoring the old bath suite which was waiting to be taken away, [...]