Peter’s Hospital Diary

Well that was Christmas – the turkey (remains of) is looking very forlorn, and the last set of visitors have departed! However it was an excellent week, starting off on Christmas Eve with the midnight service – and then on Christmas morning with a family gathering, including Olivia, who seemed more interested in the boxes […]

Happy Christmas everyone! Onwards and Upwards!

… and all through the house, everything’s manic, no peace for a mouse!” And I expect that is a familiar tale pretty much everywhere! I finished work on Friday, although it was a token effort and we packed up at mid-day. In fact it felt as if the Christmas break had started as the drive […]

One bit of news to report! Following on from Simon’s post on Tuesday, I spoke to him today. He is in fine form, having just completed the second cycle of chemo, however the inevitable side effects are kicking in. He mentioned the hair loss (and he has promised a photo for the blog!) but he […]

Time to get festive with the Christmas theme! It was a very cold and frosty weekend – however the fire made everything quite toasty! Felicity was working so I was ‘in charge’ (well, nominally!) while my parents were visiting. But we had a good weekend, with Vicki bringing Olivia round and we decorated the Christmas […]

A busy week all round really. Felicity has been doing some more contract eventing work, which means she has been coming home in the small hours of the morning, and on Wednesday I had to go to Plymouth for some meetings. While the meetings were reasonably useful, the real pleasure was getting out and about […]

Home again after another fairly intensive week, looking at aspects of computer networking – and again with exams at the end of it. I think I did OK, but I have a feeling I may have made a couple of basic mistakes, I hope not too serious. The week wasn’t helped by a rather unpleasant […]

And finally everything is back as it should be! Full raid, disk layout fine, all burning and turning! I was talking to fellow blog master Mark about it, and he commented that this episode was hardly a good advert for Linux, which rather got me thinking about the last couple of weeks. The initial failure […]