SUNDAY 19th JUNE . . . Starts a tad earlier than the planned 07:00 alarm for the airport run, as just before 02:30 shuffling is heard in the Dewey bedroom & Bob says out loud that they have a little problem . . . Oh. Turns out we’d slept through the dreaded ‘thunk’ & Mum […]
SATURDAY 18th JUNE . . . Their last full day with us. That’s gone quickly, hasn’t it. Lia & I start the day as it should be – with a coffee in the garden. Oh yes. The weather isn’t as kind as it was yesterday, but one day of 30+ degrees in Blighty is to be […]
THURSDAY 16th JUNE . . . Thursday gets off to a good start with a message from Bob at 08:15: Good night. Just finishing breakfast and off to London. No plans, maybe Westminster. Well, well, well – that’s a great start to the day! Terrific. Let’s work through that shall we, he said tongue-in-cheek: Good […]
WEDNESDAY 15th JUNE . . . Lia & I caught up properly over an early coffee in the garden, & agreed that Mum needed to choose what she wanted to do & we could only stand by & watch, helping only if wanted or in imminent danger. Fair enough. We also thought Bob would have […]
TUESDAY 14th JUNE . . . Groundhog Day morning with Bob rising around 09:00 & Mum at 09:45; they both seem stressed today but I, for once, am a picture of calmness & reason & leave them to each other. Mum seems very agitated with Bob – I think it’s because they’re moving yet again to […]
MONDAY 13th JUNE . . . Normal start to the day with Lia & I enjoying coffee in the garden before she sets off for work at 08:00 & I hammer away at a laptop until the Deweys surface; true to form, Bob appears just after 09:00 – I make him coffee & he installs […]
SATURDAY 11th JUNE . . . Saturday passed in a blur of work & household bits ’n’ bobs which had escaped being done during the week, but I arrived at the designated collection spot to collect Morecombe & Wise at 14:58 exactly – just to see them walking into the hotel. I tooted, Mum waved […]
FRIDAY 17th JUNE . . . Busy day with work on Friday & the Dewey Hotline remains silent all day until I return home around 3.30pm; where I find Bob ensconced with an own-brand Tesco cider glued to his throne in front of the TV, & Mum sitting on the sofa with him when I […]
JUNE 5-8th . . . The Deweys arrive as planned at silly o’clock on Sunday 5th June – I shan’t go into the faff involved in queuing for the best part of an hour before finding & scooping them up from where they actually were compared to where Bob said they were, but eventually they […]