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Sure enough the elusive hearing aid has been found in Barty House. It went from Mum’s room in the dirty linen and into the washing machine. It had a thorough wash before being found in the machine. The staff then worked on it to dry it and replace battery and believe it or not it […]
Mum has now lost her one remaining hearing aid. We visited yesterday and joined staff in the search. She had it at breakfast but no sign of it so far. They have searched laundry, rubbish, lounge chairs etc etc but no luck. It really upset Mum yesterday as she couldn’t hear any of us including […]
Boris has declared that as from next Monday the next phase to remove some restrictions can take place. Much more freedom, meeting in doors, public places opened, more visitors to care homes and funerals and so on. This is good news for us lucky ones here in the UK and it means that all being […]
Thursday was local election day and most results are now in. Looks like Scotland have a majority SNP but not quite an overall majority. The experts tell us that the country is now divided 50/50 over independence. They calculate this with some juggling of other smaller parties. Throughout England there has been a massive increase […]
I rode my first 10 mile Time Trial yesterday for a couple of years. Time was 30.48 minutes, just outside 30 minutes which is 20mph average. I was pleased particularly as there was a bit of a headwind. Great to see both Les (88) and MikeD (86) both competing, I hope I can manage 38 […]
It was great to have Mike and family down for the day, the boys were were excited to see us again. The heavy rain wasn’t expected till the evening but it was getting stronger through the day. however, I lit up the chiminera which stuart bought us several years ago but this is the first […]
After my tooth extraction I have taken life a bit more easily to aid recovery. So much so that on Tuesday, being a glorious day, Sue and I visited Hole Park. After a nice cafe stop in the sunshine at Hartley we drove down to Hole Park. Looking forward to bore Sue by showing her […]
After an excellent discussion with my dentist i decided to go ahead with the extraction. It went very well and came out in one go without breaking as I had been warned it might have done! As I write this my anaesthetic has just worn off and the I have popped some paracetomol as it […]
14 years ago on 24th April our dear granddaughter Grace died. She is always in our thoughts and we miss her greatly. We are so proud of Stuart and Natalie and of course, the boys in the way they have grown as a family. Ollie was just 3 at the time and both Danny and […]
A major climate change online meeting with heads of the worlds main countries took place today. President Biden making a great announcement that the US has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the year 2030. Quite a turn round from the Trump era. EU has agreed to cut CO2 emissions […]