Hello everyone It’s the 1st day of September and while I could be saying where did that month of August go, I rather think the more appropriate thing to say is, where did our summer go? Because in the UK we had one week of hot weather in June, another
Oh wow! This was our first visit to an exhibition since November 2019. I’ve felt so starved of my cultural hits, which I just took for granted, you know, that visiting museums, art galleries and exhibitions was my way of life and that’s how I behaved. But hey, last week
Hello again If you thought that the last post I put up was a little thin, apologies, I have been quite distracted these past few weeks. First of all, I took a couple of weeks to write a 3000+ word piece for My Other Blog. New followers I need to
Hi again everyone I wonder whether I’ll be continuing this diary throughout the year or will it come to an end soon? Actually, I’m thinking that I might do one more at the end of April and possibly May, and then maybe continue the theme of the post as a
Hello everyone There will be more about this at the end of the month but today (Monday 29th March) some of the severe restrictions we’ve been living under since Christmas are being removed, and we can now visit other people and sit in their gardens – three cheers to that! I
Hi everyone Phew, bit of a challenging week last week as I was recovering from tripping and falling hard on my face, oops a daisy as they say. I was fine, albeit a bit shocked so no need to worry, but my neck is a bit stiff so haven’t done
Hello everyone Over 15 million people are now vaccinated in the UK, apparently that’s 86% of all the over-70s. The 15 million are the people in the four top priority groups and the vaccination programme has now moved on to people aged 65 to 69. More about all of that
Hi everyone Got my vaccination done last Wednesday and, my word, the whole roll-out of vaccines in the UK is an incredibly efficient operation, and that, of course, is because it was not outsourced to an expensive private sector contractor but organised by our wonderful NHS. And what’s more they
Hello everyone Not much to report this week apart from we’re now wearing masks outside at all times and not just for going into a shop. It’s interesting. We’re doing this because of the new variant that originated here and the fact that there are so many cases currently in
Hello everyone Hope you all had a reasonable Christmas. We did but having opted out of a big gathering last year I will never do that again. although as you know it was just as well as Christmas Day 2019 was when my cold appeared, which led on to –