I was just sitting at home this evening, playing solitaire on the computer and listening to a compilation of John Williams’ greatest hits. Suddenly, out of nowhere I felt really miserable. Then I realised that the music playing was Rodriguez’s Guitar Concerto, which had been one of Christopher’s favourites, and which I’d had playing at […]
I watch very little television these days. I’ve never really been a huge consumer of TV, and tend to spend my down-time playing with Christopher’s iPad rather than sitting in front of the box. But when Malvern went over to digital Freeview last autumn, I dutifully (if somewhat grudgingly) bought a digibox and set it […]
It’s nearing the end of the Financial Year, and in my line of business that means one thing – it’s report season. This week I’ve been working through four customer milestone reports and two technical working papers, all of which needed to be delivered to their respective customers. I don’t write all the reports myself, […]
I don’t often go out in the evenings at the moment, as I’m still getting far too tired. But there was a concert on at Malvern Theatres this evening that I particularly wanted to see, so I made a big effort. In fact, the recent snow made it a bigger effort than I had anticipated […]
I don’t get a great deal of junk post addressed to Christopher any more, and most of that seems to be from the car dealers that we bought our Mini from, trying to get him to upgrade. Fat chance! I have every intention of running that car into the ground and don’t expect to change […]
I’ve just got back from another long day at our Hampshire offices, where I’ve been helping to brief our customers about last week’s equipment trials. While I was away, Rob seems to have pretty much finished, and has put quite a lot of the kitchen contents back – but not necessarily where they came from. […]
Yesterday was Christopher’s birthday. He would have been 48. It was also, coincidentally, the second anniversary of him starting chemotherapy. I slept very badly – but it wasn’t until 6am that I realised why. My subconscious is clearly better at significant dates than my conscious mind! Fortunately, work is so frantically busy at the moment […]
On Christmas Day, I was one of the first guests down for breakfast. Most people were still sleeping off the Gala Dinner, but I had a full day of sightseeing planned and had agreed an early pick-up with my guide. So at about 07:30 I was finishing my third cup of tea, and just starting […]
I had a quick look at my photos yesterday, and they are going to need a bit of tweaking (cropping, straightening etc) before they’re fit to post here, and I doubt I’ll have time to do that before the weekend. So I’ll leave the descriptions of the temples until I can illustrate them. I got […]
I really couldn’t face spending Christmas on my own here in the UK. Last year I went to Venice for the duration, which worked extremely well, but did have the major drawback that Italy is a Catholic country, so everything was closed on Christmas Day. I spent the day pottering up and down the Grand […]
