I had a significant birthday 2 weeks ago. I turned 75 and no, I didn’t say how did that happen, as I’m all too aware of the passing years. Reaching 75 years of age feels significant, it is, I think, significant and actually on the day I woke up feeling
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
Hi everyone How are things with you? I’ll have more to say about how England is coping with a reduction in Lockdown Version 2.0 and a consequent move to a ‘tiered’ approach to the pandemic at the end of the month. For now, in the middle of November with the
Hi everyone I’m a bit late this week – I’ll tell you the reason at the end of the post. Hair! This is a tricky one as I am not an expert on hair, and furthermore have been blessed with my mother’s Scottish red hair gene, but someone asked me
Hello everyone Did you know that last Saturday 10th October was World Mental Health day? Mind, the UK mental health charity, reminds us that mental health problems stretches further than the anxiety and angst a lot of us are feeling at the moment, indeed mental health problems are serious and
Hello everyone I thought I’d start by saying that I write this diary not as a blow-by-blow account of daily happenings, instead this is more about my thoughts on the current situation, the reason being, I think it important to capture the essence of how we are all coping during
Hi everyone How are you all? Well, I hope and having a few outings and visits from family and friends? We are still being very cautious. I actually went into a supermarket for something I forgot to get via my online delivery but I’m not going to make a habit
Hello everyone How are you all doing? I’ve begun to do more things out in the community but being very, very cautious as the virus is still circulating here in the UK – see the latest figures which contain information about local areas. But last week, I went to a
Hello dear readers How are things now that lockdown seems to be ebbing away? To be absolutely honest the announcements that we could begin the process of coming out of our isolation unsettled me a lot. As you know I am not ‘shielding’ because no-one told me that I was
Hello again We’re having some lovely weather here on the coast of southern England with blue skies and lots of sun, but there’s a cool sea breeze to keep the temperatures down just a bit – that’s my kind of weather! So it’s been jeans and a t-shirt for me.