Peter’s Hospital Diary

Sunday was fairly quiet, partly because the weather wasn’t that good and partly because we wanted to take things easy before the drive up to Caen for the ferry. However we did go to Segour Le Chateau, a tiny medieval village not far from the house. It was very picturesque, although it had an air […]

It was a rather overcast day yesterday, so we went down the road (about 20 miles) to see the Chateau at Hauteforte. It is a splendid building, parts dating from the 16th century, although modernised and renovated over the centuries, the most extensive being the demolition of much of the old keep and baily to […]

It was indeed a scorcher today! Mark and Sue had some work they wanted to do on the house, so Felicity and I drove down to Sarlat, a medieval town about 90 minutes drive away. The pictures are in The Gallery but there are a couple shown here. This one is of the interior of […]

Another hot day today, and we were up earlier than normal for a run to the boulangerie for some croissants and pain-au-chocolat (no bacon sarnies though) and then after breakfast we went off to the picturesque town of Brantome – known as the Venice of France. Well, it did have a rather pretty river (which […]

And today has indeed been hot and sunny! Yesterday was another wet day, in the morning we went to the local town (St Yrieix) to complete a shopping trip we started on Monday (but had to abandon because the shop didn’t open until the afternoon) and then in the afternoon, Mark and I went to […]

Well, we have arrived in France after an interesting journey yesterday! We arrived at the ferry terminal in good time, but on the way we noticed that the cigarette lighter wasn’t working. Not normally a problem as we don’t smoke, but we were using the socket for the GPS, and we needed that in France. […]

And the title says it all! Monday and Tuesday were fairly normal, but on Wednesday evening, Roo had a party for 30 of her friends as they are all leaving school and going on to 6th form college. Luckily the rain held off, as they were in the garden. We did have a gazebo up […]

Not a lot to report since the visit to Guy’s, although it did take a day or so to recover from the brisk exercise walking round the shops in London! However we did get a visit from Vicki and Olivia yesterday afternoon – and as Olivia was looking particularly cute, I had to get the […]

Well not strictly true because on my arrival at the haematology department I was met by the receptionist, Jenny, and then ushered in for the ritual blood letting that makes the highlight of the day! After that bit of routine stuff, I was then seen by Rachel, my tame dietician, who wasn’t as fierce as […]

It has been a busy week down here, a bit of self feeding and looking after Rachael on the days when she wasn’t out and obout or away. My parents came down for a visit on Friday and left yesterday afternoon, and Felicity came back last night from a busy week at the Henley Regatta. […]