Peter’s Hospital Diary

Hmm – it didn’t go quite as smoothly as I had hoped! For some reason (I think I know why – do do with the fact that the disk had been cloned from a previous RAID array and also a power supply connector problem preventing proper operation of that disk) the computer started treating the […]

Apologies for the absence of the blog for the last couple of evenings – this has been while I restore the computer back to its normal configuration. Last night was spent installing the two discs for the RAID 1 array, and tonight was spent migrating the data off the single hard drive (shown resting on […]

Pheww! That was a bit of a tense week, but all is (I think) restored and the blog is up and running again with no loss of data! So what happened? Well, after I got back and started looking at the computer, I found I was getting some erratic behaviour, nothing serious, but a few […]

It was a lovely sunny weekend, not without its events, but I can’t help noticing that there is that little edge to the air that heralds the arrival of autumn. Still, there is always the chance of an Indian Summer, and a long autumn is not an unpleasant prospect – evocative of bonfires of leaves, […]

Those of you that read the comments regularly will know that there are little subtexts going on, and a couple of weeks ago Gillian (a fellow campaigner for broadband) mentined riding on bananas, which prompted comments from Richard (another campaigner) asking for photos! Gillian has obliged, although she failed to send one of herself! Thank […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Felicity has gone off to another event – the Henley Regatta, although it is debateable whether there will be more water falling on the Thames than is in it, judging by another downpour we had here this morning. In fact I have now taken the bourgainvillea back indoors after I found it standing in a […]

Another week nearly gone, and I have survived being home alone! It actually ends on Saturday, but I am over halfway! Sadly I haven’t been able to survive on a diet of bacon sarnies – my mouth seems to have been worse this week, and eating has not been a pleasure! Breakfast has been limited […]