We were going to visit Rome for a spring break, but I gave Jayne the choice of Rome or Scotland and she chose Scotland, and was very excited about it. There were two main reasons for this. The first is that we have been thinking about moving up there and it would give us a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Holidays'
October 2025
November 2nd, 2025 · Comments Off on October 2025 · Life
After the excitement and stimulation of September, and the city break in Madrid, October was considerably less eventful for me, although it was a different story for Jayne. After me spending my birthday in Madrid, Jayne spent her birth day on a cruise ship in the Med. It might sound a bit strange for us […]
May 2025
June 3rd, 2025 · Comments Off on May 2025 · Life
May was a very eventful month, which we have been looking forward to/dreading for ages. Jayne got it into her head that it would be a good idea for us to take five grandchildren away to Corfu for half term, and in a moment of weakness I agreed to this mad plan.
April 2025
May 2nd, 2025 · Comments Off on April 2025 · Life
A quiet month, fortunately. No work trips to Glasgow, no drives to Norwich, Hampshire or Essex to visit family. Just work and a long Easter weekend, followed by more than a week of an unseasonable grotty cold, which started to disappear a bit towards the end of the month just as the weather perked up […]
September 2023
October 1st, 2023 · Comments Off on September 2023 · Life
September was a month packed with events and excitement, or at least what passes for excitement at my age.
Holiday post mortem
September 29th, 2019 · Comments Off on Holiday post mortem · Life, Technology
This week we returned from a 10-day visit to Crete. It was the most boring holiday Jayne and I have ever had, but that is not a bad thing. In the past we have rented a car or quad and gone out around the island, visiting the many and varied archaeological sites, but this time […]
Foreign parts
June 16th, 2019 · Comments Off on Foreign parts · Life
This month I saw my oncologist and got a plan for the remainder of my treatment. What that means is that we now know when my last lot of chemotherapy starts so we can work out when it should end, add a week to get over the effects, and a couple of weeks to allow […]
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Back to real life
October 11th, 2013 · Comments Off on Back to real life · Life
Well the holiday in Egypt went well. I can’t belive it is all over and we are back to work – I suppose you could say I am in denial (geddit?). Sorry about that. Couldn’t resist it. Anyway, we had a great two weeks, bookended by two extremely dull Easyjet flights. I can live with […]
Normal service will be resumed…
September 18th, 2013 · Comments Off on Normal service will be resumed… · Life
…in October. Jayne and I are off to Egypt tomorrow for our first holiday in two years and are obviously very excited about it. The only fly in the ointment is worrying about how the dogs will react to us not being around for so long. Frankie is house-, dog, and cat-sitting and Charlie will […]
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Epic holiday reading fail
September 2nd, 2013 · 4 Comments · Life
The other day I started to prepare for our impending hoday by stocking up on some reading matter. Our last holiday was a bit of a disaster in that department: Jayne took one book, thinking it would last her but finished it after a couple of days. I thought I was better prepared with my […]
