I’ll leave you with a little reading to keep you amused whilst I am gone. On one of my favourite message boards, there is a fellow City fan whose posts always entertain Billy and I, and he has kindly given permission for me to share his latest with you. Sit back, relax, and enjoy Mick’s [...]

My Sussex trip has come round at last and I can’t wait! I am spending a couple of days and nights with my friend Linda. We were best friends from when our children were babies until I left Sussex, and we looked after each others’ children regularly – I think we were more parents to [...]

Billy’s mum has definitely got cancer again. It has spread from the original site, into the lymph system, and there is a tumour in her neck, and possibly in her stomach too. Either the cancer spread escaped detection when it was checked originally, or Rani hasn’t been too good at taking her medication – which [...]

Dr Max – Having been granted his licence to practice in Hexham, Max is starting at my clinic on September 9th, so we have had the local newspaper come to the clinic to take his photo and interview him (with me chipping in here and there ) I will need to do a lot of [...]

On Sunday, I drove back down the M6 to go to watch City play West Ham – and had a thoroughly good time City played beautifully and Petrov completely tore the Hammers’ defence to pieces. In fact there wasn’t one player that didn’t do well! Petrov, Sturridge, Ireland and Kompany were particularly outstanding, and it [...]

With Laura being away, and Stephen mainly crashing at his friend’s house whilst friend’s parents are away on holiday, Billy and I have had some time to ourselves – for only the 3rd time in our lives together. (4 days in 2006, and 3 days in 2007) On Tuesday night, I had to see a [...]

On Sunday 17th August, I drove Laura and her friend to Chester and then after one of Mum’s lovely Sunday roasts, I came back home, leaving the girls to stay there for a week. The pair of them are such delightful giggle-pots when together, that I wondered if Mum knew what she was in for [...]

Last week, I had a phone all from a practitioner interested in joining my clinic, and as he practices Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, I was very interested in having him on board. He was unable to come immediately and so sent his friend to visit so that she could tell him whether the premises [...]

Last Thursday we played FC Midtjylland in the UEFA Cup, and the first leg was at home. I watched the match on TV, and it was awful at first – we looked completely out of our depth and we conceded a goal. However, we did come back into the game and were unfortunate to hit [...]

On Thursday afternoon Laura noticed some blood on the bedding in Nel’s cage and that she was breathing heavily, so the pair of us spent a fair amount of time crouched on the floor next to the cage. We couldn’t see anything bar the movement of bedding where it poked out of the nest, but [...]