I woke at about 6.30 am as usual on Saturday morning, and immediately had a shower (pinching A’s towel which was the only one I could see) and dressed as we needed to get away early back to Bristol. The plan was for Raji to drive us there, and go to Rani’s flat so we [...]

We had arranged to breakfast with H,M,A and J at 7.30 on the Friday morning so I was up early enough to shower and dry my hair first, then Billy had his. We both put on yesterday’s clothes for breakfast though – just in case of accidents. Once again Billy’s cousins helped make the meal [...]

On Thursday, having had to wait for Raji’s suit to be dry cleaned, we finally set off for Bristol in the afternoon, which meant, of course, that we hit Birmingham at the wrong time! We had also encountered roadworks along the way and eventually arrived in Bristol 7.5 hours later, and were then faced with [...]

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On Tuesday morning, at 10.30, I received a phone call at work from Mrs Gem. She’d seen a dead cat at the side of the road just along from our house and she was pretty sure it was Tinker! I think I wailed down the phone before I composed myself enough to thank her, and [...]

On Monday and Tuesday, we were both working as normal, and on opening my e-mails at the hospital I saw that all staff were requested to present themselves in the atrium at 11.45 am for a staff film/photo shoot for a promotional DVD being made for the Trust. Oh great! Just what I needed, to [...]

On Saturday morning, I raced around getting the house clean and tidy and welcoming for Billy, and then Claire and I drove into Newcastle to collect him at the train station. We actually left an hour later than planned as Billy had missed his train and was on the next one. We met him without [...]

but a quick mention of what else has been happening for the past week: Saturday – I went to City v Boro (1-0) and on the way down passed the time of day with a mini-bus full of young lads going to the match. Then saw the same lot at the last services (only ‘cos [...]

Well, as you will have seen from my Twitter/Brightkite updates in the left panel, Billy and Raji’s mum, Rani has passed away after losing her battle with cancer. This was the latest crisis that had hit us – well, her sudden worsening, and I simply haven’t had a chance to write properly about it before [...]

As we are in the midst of yet another crisis I will have to just give a quick outline of what’s been happening here: • Our last crisis is much more settled and we feel more in control of the situation, thank goodness. • I’m busy in my clinic just now with both old and [...]