Category Archives: Sanders Blog – Hellas

19th February, 2012 Happy 60th Birthday, Bob. Received a nice email reply from Bob and I have suggested Pauline & I will take him & Jane out for dinner when we come back from Greece in October. 20th February, 2012 One … Continue reading →

12th February, 2012 It was -4C in the garage when I went down to the car at 8.00 am. to go and get the papers. The air took my breath away as I go out of the car to buy … Continue reading →

5th February, 2012 Quite a bit of snow fell over night. Well, a couple of inches. In Yorkshire, it would just have been a normal May morning. In Surrey, it was akin to walking to the North Pole. We drove out … Continue reading →

30th January, 2012 The M62 in West Yorkshire was closed temporarily by snow last night. Here in Surrey, the days are still mild with a little edge on the breeze. We certainly haven’t seen any snow and it is our … Continue reading →

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 →