City’s game was not until the Sunday but I hadn’t seen mum for a while so we arranged for me to go and stay with her on the Saturday night and go to my game from there on Sunday before driving home. Mum was working on the Saturday morning which gave me time to drive [...]

Last Friday night we played a new team in an old haunt – The Ex Service Club – their B1 team. When we arrived, the upstairs games area was rather busy as the Ex have 4 teams playing there, two in each division, and therefore two teams playing at home each week. We didn’t recognise [...]

City’s away game against Wigan was on the TV on Sunday so I raced through the ironing and other jobs and managed to sit and watch the game in full. It wasn’t great but it certainly did get feisty! During the first half I was less than impressed with my boys and could only hope [...]

Just when Stephen was settling nicely into his work at the shop, he has been made redundant as the shop has closed! He received a phone call asking him to go in to work for ten minutes (along with all the other staff) and they were all (including the manager) told there and then “That’s [...]

Still catching up after being offline for a while, so I’m putting all the sports stuff together as I know this is mainly on here for ME (as my own record) and is not very interesting for most others to read. DARTS: Two weeks ago we played The Sun Inn at Acomb, away and my [...]

For my second week off work I had a self-written list of jobs that was growing by the minute. I knew I couldn’t do nearly as much as I’d like but was determined to do as much as possible. The main job was to finally do the second coat of magnolia paint in the living [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Raji gave Billy a lift into Newcastle but just as he got back to this town, his car died. He managed to get some help to push the car off the road and leave it in a safe place and then he had to walk home (about 15-20 minutes walk) [...]

I had herb talks/events arranged on the Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and my usual Wednesday clinic so my first week off was pretty much taken up with preparations for these as well as by the events themselves. On Tuesday afternoon I was talking in Alnwick to the Parkinson’s Support Group and it was a good [...]

Having some holiday to take from work, I’ve taken two consecutive weeks this month with the first week being to concentrate on herby things and the second on home decorating. It sounds a lot doesn’t it? A fortnight.Two weeks. Fourteen days. But actually, since I only work at the hospital two days a week, my [...]

City had two consecutive Monday night games, which meant, of course, that I couldn’t go. So I let my friend Lee use my ticket for the home game and got him one for the away game too. With such a long time since the games, I can only vaguely remember what we did, so this [...]