I felt slightly under the weather on Saturday but nevertheless managed to make a chilli for us, a Bolognese for Laura, a peach crumble and a bread-and-butter-pudding ready for dinner and then spent some time showing Billy’s mum some of my family photos as she was interested. It took me ages to dig them all [...]

After a fairly stressful couple of days at the hospital it was good to get to Friday night – darts night. We were playing The Heart A team, away and it’s a pleasant pub in which to play so we enjoyed it. And we ALMOST won too! We lost 6-5 and could have nicked it, [...]

Given that Monday was a bank holiday and it was Lee’s turn to have this one, we have swapped this week so that I am working on Thursday and Friday and she just worked Tuesday. This meant that I had to go and do the Tesco shopping on Tuesday – even though we still had [...]

Easter Sunday at Pat’s was lovely, as ever. We ate far too much, drank a fair bit, and played the usual games – the men comfortably won the Trivial Pursuit, the ladies won Cranium and the men then won Pictionary. Rani and I left shortly after Cranium was started as she needed her bed – [...]

Having exchanged choccy eggs and cards, we adults are all off to Pat’s for the now traditional meal, fun and games which we enjoy each New Year’s Day and Easter Sunday. Stephen had a friend staying over last night and has now disappeared out with her – maybe to escort her home. Laura is happy [...]

Raji had driven up after work on Thursday and arrived at about 10.30 pm which was just after I’d gone to bed, so I didn’t see him until Friday morning. Being Good Friday and therefore a holiday, we were all off work/school and able to do what we pleased. Billy and Raji went off to play [...]

On Thursday the world went mad! Just like it was before Christmas, Tesco was packed with panicked shoppers stocking up for a siege and it was everyone for himself! Grrr! After surviving this battle, it was nice not to have worry about the evening meal as Rani and I had arranged to spend the evening [...]

For the past year, I have been using a basic Nokia phone for my business, and carrying a diary everywhere so that I can book appointments for my patients. This is slightly unwieldy. Also, I have often spent the day at my clinic (where there is a computer but no internet access) and then finding e-mails [...]

After just 3 hours sleep the night before, I was very, very tired all day Monday and stumbled through the day looking forward to bed time, though it wasn’t a terrible day really. After dinner (just a quick stir-fry) Billy and I settled in his room (the only one with Setanta ) to watch his [...]

Claire, a Spurs fan, (the same Claire who plays darts and who lives next door) and I left home at 10.30 am on Sunday and made our way to Manchester for the clash between our teams. Once we parked up, we walked to the pub to see Don and Phil, amongst others and had a [...]