Mum and I tend to stay in touch by text most days and on Thursday night she sent one saying that Muffin (her beautiful cat) was off his food and not well and that she would take him to the vet in the morning if he was no better. She did this before work on [...]

Poor Laura has had a muddle of a room since we first moved in to this house 5 years ago, and she’s had to put up with the grotty, DISGUSTING, blown vinyl wall paper on the walls for good measure. I had a very casual conversation with her a couple of months ago and established [...]

I have been away from my hospital work this week (booked off months ago in the hope that Billy and I might be able to do something together with it, but he didn’t get the time off.) Instead I decided a couple of months ago, that I would work on a project for the week. [...]

On Monday I had a hospital appointment in Gateshead and Billy had booked the day off work so he could come with me and be my navigator. The journey should take about 30-40 minutes so we set out an hour and a quarter early in case we had trouble finding the hospital. Good job we [...]

(An old Penguin (biscuit) advert in case you wonder about the title of this entry! (BT then used part of it to make their own version) Despite being worn out on the Sunday after our trip, I managed to catch up with the ironing, bed-changing and cooking, so was pleased with myself. I had to [...]

Billy and I left home at 10am on Saturday to catch the 11am train from Newcastle to London for my birthday treat. We were travelling in First Class and we’d planned to have lunch in the dining carriage – but there WAS no dining carriage on this train. Oh well, we’d have something from the [...]

Both Billy (cricket dinner) and Simon (colleague’s leaving do) were unavailable to play darts on Friday night so we’d roped in Roger senior and Stuart, meaning we’d have father and two sons playing alongside Claire, Paul and myself. We were at home to The Grapes who turned up with only 4 players, before finding a [...]

On Friday morning, I had a counselling appointment and I needed it! Not only had I been generally weepy, but there was one bit of news that I just couldn’t get out of my head and really upset me. On Thursday afternoon at the school which Laura attends, and Stephen has just left, a year [...]

This Week: • I went back to work at the hospital to find absolute chaos (come back Lee, all is forgiven!) It took me almost the two whole days to put things back where they belonged after my manager had had a “tidy-up” and to wade through the pile of work she’d left me. • [...]

Having left extra time for travel on Sunday, I sailed along and got to the stadium at 1pm – but as my friend had asked me to get a City shirt with Robinho 10 on the back, I had plenty of time to queue for one. (The friend supports Arsenal, as does his son, who [...]