My holiday already seems a long time ago. Four days back at work, including an extra-long day at our Hampshire headquarters, are quickly turning it into a distant memory. So, before I completely forget about it, I should like to put on record one of the highlights of the trip, Dubrovnik. BA flies from Gatwick […]
I thoroughly enjoyed my holiday – more than I had expected to in fact. I’d thought long and hard about what sort of holiday I wanted, and when to take it, and it all worked out very well. I was badly in need of a break after the bid had been submitted, and before all […]
When I was tidying up recently I found a voucher entitling me to money off a ticket at the Malvern cinema. I’ve no idea how long I’ve had it, as I really don’t remember what I tore it out from. But it had no expiry date on it so I reckoned it would still be […]
I’ve been feeling pretty miserable recently. It’s nearly a year ago that things went from very serious to critical with Christopher, and I’m really not looking forward to the anniversary of his death. So I thought I would attempt to forcibly cheer myself up by going to the allegedly extremely funny spoof murder mystery that’s […]
I’m not sure whether to describe last night’s trip to Malvern Theatres as a visit to the theatre or the cinema. The ticket was twice the price of their cinema tickets, but only half the price of a theatre ticket. And the venue was neither the cinema nor the theatre, but the third, flexible performing […]
It was my birthday this week, and I found it very difficult indeed. I missed Christopher so much. It was a huge struggle to get out of bed that morning – I really wanted to just turn over and pull the duvet over my head. Perhaps fortunately I had some meetings arranged at work that […]
Last Friday I was invited to a dinner in Oxford, the annual engineering scholars’ reunion at my college. I wasn’t able to go last year, as it was in the middle of Christopher’s final round of chemotherapy – the one which ended up with him hospitalised in an isolation ward with neutropenia. But in previous […]
I’m not over-keen on spas, and was rather underwhelmed with the one in Malvern. But since I was in Bath last week, staying just a few minutes walk away from the new Thermae Spa complex, I took the opportunity to pay a visit. Partly, I was curious to see the new spa, having spent a […]
I thought I’d take advantage of the run of Bank Holidays and have a few days away. So I booked three nights in a two-bedroom self-catering apartment in Bath, and invited my parents to join me. The flat was in Laura Place, which (if I remember my Jane Austen correctly) was where the snobbish cousin, […]
After the last play I went to turned out to be a “comedy” about the effects that someone dying of cancer has on their wife and friends, I was a bit cautious about going back to the theatre. But this week, Malvern Theatres was showing Yes Prime Minister, and I really enjoyed the TV series […]
