Peter’s Hospital Diary

In fact I am tempted to use the stock answer to Parliamentary questions “I refer the reader to my previous post of…” as today followed the standard pattern of up early, Arrive at Guy’s, donate an armful of blood etc! There was a slight delay though as I was supposed to have blood taken for […]

Somewhat busier than I expected too! You may have noticed that the blog was down for most of yesterday! It started last week after we returned from France, when I bought a new Voice-over-IP (VOIP) phone. We do use VOIP, but the new phone has a cordless handset and can interface both to VOIP accounts […]

The only problem with going away is the return to work! Actually it isn’t that bad! I did pop in briefly on Tuesday afternoon, and then returned properly on Wednesday morning. However it is the holiday period so all is pretty quiet. Last night a few of us went for a ‘quiet drink’ in Old […]

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 […]