September is Blood Cancer Awareness month. CLL Support Association has long supported this: the huge “ROGER” in our back garden is testament to that. This year, 2022, CLLSupport wanted to promote “living well with CLL” and asked members for photo/video contributions of how they continue to “live well. ‘ Enjoying a little challenge – made […]
Never did I, in the late 1980s believe I would use a lyric from the terrific Yazz anthem as the title of a Blog. In fact never did I conceive of the idea of a Blog. I was familiar with home computing: games and Tassword etc running on a 128K Amstrad CPC 464. Yes you
After a week of emotional, physical and cognitive darkness this week starts with the commemoration of Mom’s passing. In some ways when I received the call from Den early that morning it brought some peace to the stresses Mom’s body was going through in her last days: her spirit had given up the ghost some
Joanie – five years gone: but never forgotten!… carry on reading
Originally this was to be titled “That was the week that was!” – harking back to the “Braden Beat”, Millicent Martin (recently seen on “Grace and Frankie”), “The Frost Report” and those other mid-Sixties satire shows. But life happened and Covid struck! What follows is my recollection of firstly – the week that was –
(another) Fifty years on. April 1st 1972 – no April Fools! In the spirit of honesty and confession, I write. Not with a sense of disappointment or disgrace but with acceptance that all things pass; a George Harrison reference! It was a good day! It was fifty years ago that Jane and I celebrated our
The first four months (or thereabouts! “A new year; a new challenge!” That’s what I said/wrote on January 1st 2015. How many folk have said that to themselves? How many times did I repeat it like a mantra all through the Autumn of 2014? Well now it’s 2015 and how things have changed!? Putting a
Seven years along this Leukaemia Journey: “What a long strange trip it’s been!”… carry on reading
With a real Noddy Holder bellow – I’m proclaiming the Twelve Day Feast of Christmas is here!I’m adding the content of an email I sent out this morning, with the same spirit, presenting a short animation of the Nativity. “Merry Christmas everyone” Shakin’ Stevens is not my usual reference point for starting a short Blog.
