After a nice peaceful day at work on Monday, and a pleasant (hilarious at times) evening with Paul and Steph that night, finally, we are off for Christmas! If, like us, you have stresses and worries, I hope you can put them aside just for the festive period and enjoy quality time with loved ones, [...]

On Saturday evening, Billy and I drove to The Holiday Inn at Seaton Burn for his work Christmas Party. As we checked in, I saw that the entertainment for the party was an Abba tribute band and groaned aloud. I told Billy I’d probably have the meal and escape as soon as I could! Our [...]

That’s it! I am now in the “Hughes out” camp. I could only follow the text commentary for the Racing Santander match, but it was apparently as awful as my understanding. I watched the WBA game on TV – and though we played, and had possession, we didn’t seem look particularly dangerous in that final [...]

I had to go back to work on Tuesday as my manager was going away for Christmas and we still haven’t replaced Lee yet. I thought I was almost back to normal, but the walk in and then climbing the stairs to my office showed me otherwise! My legs were really wobbly and I felt [...]

On Saturday it was our 4th wedding anniversary and so we exchanged presents in bed before Billy had to go to work. The 4th anniversary, we thought, traditionally meant wooden gifts should be given, and we’d both struggled a bit to find wooden presents that would appeal, without costing too much. I was pleased with [...]

I haven’t been completely idle whilst recuperating and from Thursday onwards I have been starting to prepare for Christmas (very late for me but this really has been a busy year!) I wrote the cards once I was sitting up in bed, and progressed to sitting at the computer to type the letters that needed [...]

Not being up to travelling for this match, I stayed at home and watched a live stream of it on the net, and was rather glad in the end that I had stayed at home. It was another of those games that was great to watch for a neutral as the play was quite open [...]

Last week (Tuesday night actually, but I didn’t know until Wednesday) Laura’s Syrian hamster Rikki died quietly in his sleep. We’d half expected him to go soon as he had become sleepy and much thinner but it’s still sad. We all loved him – he was totally mad, but so bright and cute. Billy particularly [...]

I slept well Tuesday night, unsurprisingly! However, what DID surprise me was that I had no pain to speak of. In fact I have taken no pain killers at all bar the doses I was instructed to take Tuesday night. (Since I only ever use paracetamol once or twice a year, this huge box will [...]

On Tuesday I had to be at the hospital in Gateshead for 7.45 am and Raji had been persuaded kindly offered to drive Billy and I over there. First we had to defrost the car but we were away by 6.50 am and had a smooth drive. The North East Surgery Centre was more like [...]