Amber never ever looks out of the window of my office. Except on Fridays because this is the day the ASDA man comes with the prawns. It is like kitty Christmas every week.

I’ve ditched the crutches/wheelchair now and am walking in the Aircast boot. The only part that is a little painful if I stand too long is the place in my heel where the original screws came out. Most of the scars have healed up now – there is one bit left which was where the […]

R is off on his yearly jaunt to New York next week. Saphy has decided to join him. She really does have a thing about suitcases, as she wanted to come to hospital in my case too. R goes to New York. I go to Ross Hall. Actually I am joking a bit here because […]

Saphy spends an inordinately large amount of time on my bed. At the moment I have to do my strength and flexibility exercises lying down, and about any time I go to either make the bed or do the exercises she is there. Either I chip her off in which case I feel guilty, or […]

I really do love plum crumble – but only made with real Victoria plums. Around this time of year I get them from the local greengrocer and make a simple topping of wholemeal flour, muesli and a little butter and sugar. I don’t put anything like the amount of either of the “naughty” ingredients in […]

We are thinking of getting a garage put up. The house originally had an integral double garage, but our need to have two separate offices was greater than that for the garage and we had it converted back in 2017. Now we realize that we could do with one, because apart from the car sitting […]

I can’t really go out on to the lawn and pick apples at the moment, but I can see through the door that the ones on my favourite tree are getting ripe, so I got R to bring one in for me to see whether they are ready for picking. Looking at it, I think […]

I took two cartons of chili con carne which I made before my operation out of the freezer today to have for our lunch. It was not until I had decanted it into a Pyrex dish and put it in the oven, that I realized that one of the plastic cartons had shattered at the […]

This morning we couldn’t find Amber. This was very unusual as she only has a few sleeping places – R’s bed, my bed and occasionally R’s office chair. This morning she was not in any of them, and we had a moment of worry. Then we checked the web camera in the hall to find […]

I went back to Ross Hall yesterday to have my 47 staples out. This was not a particularly pleasant experience as the staples look rather like upholstery staples, and the tool for removing them looks like, well put it this way, I have one in my sewing kit. It is only mildly painful, but the […]