30th December 2012 On Monday, Nan joined the Huntingdon Gardens gang for their Christmas dinner. They trekked to Enderby to dine at a Toby Inn (yes, apparently they still exist, who knew?). The food was the usual festive fare, and naturally it wouldn’t have been a proper ‘wrinklies’ outing without a chorus of complaints: slow… Continue Reading

16th December 2012 For once, Friday night was a quiet one. Nan, Jamie, and Sarah were all at home or University, while the Rothwells had decamped to Kettering for Lucas’s birthday, celebrating with a ten-pin bowling party for his school friends and some old neighbours from Newark. That left just Sue and me. I rustled… Continue Reading

7th December 2012 I’ve been out with the chainsaw again, this time with a dual purpose: clearing trees and bushes along the riverbank to keep the floodwater moving downstream rather than letting it sulk in a dam of debris, and, of course, turning the lot into neat little logs. Waste not, want not. While hacking… Continue Reading