I've just read that, following the death of a toddler, who choked on a grape in their restaurant, a Pizza Hut in Hartlepool has taken grapes off their menu. As a mother and grandmother my heart goes out to the poor parents of the little lad and, as someone who has almost choked on several occasions owing to neck and…
We arrive back from the High St and I hear someone calling from the old people's bungalows over (and below) our garden wall. I can see no-one but I go over and finally find a head. Attached to a body. She is alerting me to the fact that the three scruffy youths, whom we saw heading down the ginnel between our house and our…
Skype conversation last night with 8 year old grandson : Him - Hello Gran. Me - Hello superstar, how are you? Him - Good, thanks. Me - What have you been up to at school? Him - I`ve been playing hockey, Gran - it`s well good, nearly as good as football & cricket Me - Wow, with big sticks? Him - Short blue plastic ones Me -…
It's the season for scary stories..... The old house with it's older abandoned ancestor poised some distance behind it, sat on ten acres of rolling, open aspen forest. The older homestead that sat behind it was just a shell now. Even the roof was caving in. There was a large red barn in between the two houses that still…
Hello everyone. I spent the morning glued to the JustGiving page of Stephen Sutton - if you haven't read his story then take a look. He is a 19 year old lad who is dying of cancer, and is one of the most inspirational people I have ever come across. He wrote a bucket list of things he wanted to do before he dies, and one…
Did anyone watch the programme on Joan Rivers Autopsy on Channel 5 last night? I usually watch the autopsy programme of famous people because I find it interesting because a lot of them it's just shear abuse of drugs and drinks but last night it was shocking. It was pretty much shear medical negligence. I hope her daughter…
I picked up the office cold bug and couldn't persuade it to leave so two weeks on I decided enough was enough and managed to see a GP this morning. After some questioning by the GP and him listening to my chest, and a very dramatic demonstration of my coughing and wheezing on my part, he pronounced that I had had a chest…
... on 13th October it's 2 years since my Dad passed away from lung cancer. On top of that, on 19th Oct it'll be 9 years since we lost my niece to ovarian cancer. Dad was 88 when he passed, Kirsty (my niece) was only 20 and had a 10 month old baby girl when she passed. Difficult days ahead for me when I'll be trying to…
Gordon Honeycombe has died at the age of 79 a very popular newsreader for many years: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34485074 Hugh Scully has died at the age of 72, presenter of the Antiques roadshow. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34488729
Well, I've been to my weekly weigh in at S*** W***. Now, please bear in mind that the last weigh-in I'd maintained (no loss but no gain), and since then I've had an absolute pig of a cold which I just can't get rid of. It's obviously found a lovely home in me and has no intention of moving! :monster: As result, since…
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