I was back on the road on Saturday, to watch City’s last home game of the season. (We finish with two away’s this year, having had our original City v Newcastle last day fixture, changed because of the UEFA cup final being staged at CoMS.) I’d confidently predicted, the night before, that we’d lose this [...]

Unsurprisingly, the only darts cup competition which we are still in, is the “Bottom Fours” – a dubious honour. Last year, the format was everyone playing down from 1001. (So two teams of six, each taking player taking their turn (11 people in between!) to try and get down from 1001.) It was absolutely awful [...]

I drove back home on Thursday morning – via a little detour thanks to a lorry shedding its load, though happily the detour was not really a problem, simply requiring me to get off the motorway one junction after my usual one. I unloaded the car, had a quick chat with the children, and then [...]

On Wednesday, St George’s Day, Mum and I exchanged cards and little presents. Mum had been really clever and found proper St George’s Day badges (as opposed to general England ones) and we both dressed in smart casual clothes, wore red, and wore these new badges along with our Coldstream ones from last year. We [...]

On Tuesday evening, Mum and I joined a couple of mum’s colleagues at the Cathedral for a performance by Aled Jones. I really had no idea of what to expect as I only know his “Snowman” song which was obviously made years (and years) ago. We had good seats and had to endure time to [...]

Mum was working on the Monday so I had a lovely day home alone. Absolute Heaven. No-one to suddenly appear asking me to do anything. I popped out to CostCo as the one in Chester is very conveniently located, and then I had a relaxing bath in the afternoon. I’d volunteered to cook dinner so [...]

Having tried to spend a little time with Rani on her last day here, and wishing the men luck for their derby game, before I left, I had a smooth drive down to Manchester. I stopped, as ever, to use the loo at Bolton services and as I came back to my car, a car [...]

The week ended routinely, and Raji came up on Friday night, to stay for the weekend. On Saturday I cooked a roast dinner at lunchtime and Rani and I spent the afternoon packing – she is going home Sunday evening and I am going away for a few days. (More on this further on) At [...]

On Thursday, Sarah and Helen came round for a girls’ night in and a sari-donning lesson. First of all we ate pizza, salad, strudel and thick cream, washed down with wine (Sarah and I), Coke (Helen) and tea (Rani) and then we got the saris out. We each picked one, and Rani showed us how [...]

On Wednesday, after a routine day in my clinic, I sat down and watched the FA Youth Cup Final second leg. The first leg had been Chelsea 1 – 1 City and an end to end game. I wasn’t convinced we could win this, especially with Danny Sturridge unfortunately not recovering sufficiently from his knock [...]