Author Archives: John Sanders

22nd January, 2012 Breakfast, papers, football. Disgraceful win for City with Balotelli still on the pitch. What was the referee doing? Fairly disappointing win for United given their early dominance.   23rd January, 2012 One of the delights of living … Continue reading →

15th January, 2012 A cold, bright and delicious day here today. Sunday papers and football. The temperature outside hardly rose above -3 but we suddenly realised as we went to bed that the heating hadn’t been on all day and we … Continue reading →

8th January, 2012 Off to the paper shop in beautiful sunshine. I drove past a magnificent camelia tree in full flower. Mum would have been so jealous of flowers in the second week of January. After watching Man. U. beat City … Continue reading →

1st January, 2012 Happy New Year. Happy January to you all! Got a text and then a nice email from Liz today. She hadn’t got my card and change of address because she’d moved. She’s talking about going to live … Continue reading →

25th December, 2011 Happy Christmas to any one reading this. It has been an interesting and low-key day. Got up late at 8.0 am and had toast & marmalade with tea. Pauline put in a bit of preparation work for food … Continue reading →

Year 4 of the Blog starts here……………..  18th December, 2011 2C outside. Heavy frost on the ground. No heating on in the flat which is 22C. We can’t understand how it is like that but we are delighted. In Oldham, … Continue reading →

11th December, 2011 This is the final week of the third year of my Blog. On a personal level, the Blog has recorded some of the most momentous experiences of my life. Its first entry was Christmas Day, 2008. Mum had … Continue reading →

4th December, 2011 Just an ordinary day. I’ve just looked back to this day last year in my Blog and my first words were exactly the same but followed by “….surrounded by snow”. We had been snowbound in the shoebox … Continue reading →

27th November, 2011 We had a wonderful night’s sleep in our new bed in our new bedroom in our new apartment. We haven’t got a dining table or settees but it is delightful to be in at last. It is … Continue reading →

20th November, 2011 This is the week that the apartment finally comes together. Monday – all the fitted furniture is installed and lots of extra shelves are put up in all sorts of cubby holes to help with storage. Even my wine … Continue reading →