Once a supplement to our, now defunct, website but now more of a personal peep through my window at the world, but still mostly drivel
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 28th, 2006
I had four hours yesterday at the CT scan and a short period with the surgeon as well and it looks like my heart can take it; so the likelihood is that I will be in Mount E this weekend with the operation perhaps on Saturday. I must admit that I had vaguely thought of [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 26th, 2006
Well, damned if it didn’t go rather nasty on me and lead to a fair bit of pain. I guess a bit of sweet talking may be necessary to make the cutter realise he should jump in and do the work. My interest is in getting the quality of life restored to as high a [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 26th, 2006
I have been reminiscing rather just recently, possibly because I am just a shade nervous and hence avoiding the present. The damn cough has been sufficient so as to cause the high level hernia, not an unusual nasty after the emergency operation I had some years ago, to open and allow more of the intestine [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 24th, 2006
Funny how the mind works, isn’t it? I was reading about Ian Dury and the time Pete (long before being caught by the police for “researching” kiddie porn) had him convinced that Kilburn & the High Roads would open for them in the States. Not surprisingly it didn’t happen but did perhaps lead to Ian [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 23rd, 2006
As an irregular side pain erupted yet again I remembered how some forty years ago I debated getting two tattoos. A friend with biker tendencies had a number and I was taken with the idea of two question marks, one above each kidney. Little did I know that some decades later I would still be [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 21st, 2006
In spite of the horrid flu (non-bird!) or whatever it was that attacked me recently we were loathe to cancel the booking at Whitebait & Kale for our romantic Valentine’s meal of fear of losing a deposit or even the entire cost of the “all-in” booking. So I was dragged from my sick bed (I [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 20th, 2006
Years ago, after the death of my first wife and before I was lucky enough to meet Alice, I was working in KSA and I telephoned to what I thought was Harrods. Unfortunately I had the number wrong but a charming lady, when I explained my problem, found the number and passed it to me. [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 20th, 2006
The other day I was getting dressed ready to go and whimper at the Doc’s yet again when I thought of wearing my DMs, something which I had passed on for some time now. This was not unassisted by my friend Jon having declared them a total style disaster some years ago. Admittedly the boots [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 16th, 2006
I have been feeling terrible for the best part of a week, with a dreadful cough that shakes my entire body without the benefit of shifting any phlegm. My bloodpressure shot up, headaches abounded and the drugs seemed to do nothing towards actually stopping me coughing. However they did send me into a semi-sleep almost [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 7th, 2006
I like to keep my eye on blogs generally, not necessarily sensibly or in a returning manner, although I did read the entire archives of a guy from KSA with great interest, but just by hitting the “next blog” button. This has led me to a deep desire to discuss matters at some length with [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 3rd, 2006
What are little girls made of, made of? What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and all things nice, Thats what little girls are made of. What are little boys made of, made of? What are little boys made of? Slugs and snails and puppy dogs tails, Thats what little boys are made [...]
Posted in Philippines Family Cebu on Feb 2nd, 2006
. . . . . . . . . . I work most closely with two very pleasant, and very competent, ladies; who, in spite of this, treat me as an equal. Here I snapped them to prove that unlike old codgers like me they are prepared to act like (to use a UK term) [...]
