It’s been a fortnight full of meetings – both at the hospital and my clinic. There were meetings at the hospital with reps from a couple of the breast prosthesis companies so they could tell us about their new products, and one of these brought with her a lovely picnic lunch from M&S which provided [...]

On Sunday we had to be up and out early to attend Church for the Christening of Sol and Louisa’s son. It was in the same church as their daughter had been christened so we had some idea of what to expect. Knowing her friends well, Louisa had put 10.20am as the time to be [...]

Last week, we had two darts matches to play. On Thursday, we had to play a postponed Christmas period league game against The Heart B and on Friday, a normal fixture away to The Phoenix B. I had a meeting to attend at my clinic on the Thursday so I didn’t play and Roger Snr [...]

For her birthday, Laura had asked for: a) a day at home having the house to herself; b) some home-made food: chocolate mousse; apple pie; banoffi pie; cheesecake; sausage rolls; and chocolate gateau; c) to change her name legally; d) certain books that she needs for her collection. So we fulfilled a) by going out [...]

On Saturday morning I set off bright and early for Chester to see mum before going on to my match. I REALLY needed a day’s escape and had been looking forward to it. I had a couple of hours with Mum which was really lovely and she cooked us an early dinner too. I saw [...]

On Friday we were playing darts at home to the Ex Service club (for whom Roger and his dad used to play.) The team has changed a lot now and there were only a couple of them that I knew so it was not the same as it used to be in previous years, when [...]

Sorry I’ve been AWOL. As you possibly guessed from the silence (apart from the couple of protected posts) we’ve been having a bit of a crisis. We’re not out of the woods yet but think we may have started clearing undergrowth to show the path through. Other than all that, life has carried on regardless, [...]

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We spent the first weekend of the new year taking down decorations, clearing away all traces of Christmas, eating up leftovers and generally returning to normal. On Saturday 3rd, I waded my way through the European ironing mountain whilst following the FA Cup game between City and Nottingham Forest on the BBC’s live text commentary. [...]