Category Archives: Sanders Blog – Hellas

26th December, 2010  Up in time to have tea & toast for breakfast and then watch the Test Match highlights at 10.00 am. What joy! I loved every minute of it. A good score now will clinch the Ashes. Ruth … Continue reading →

19th December, 2010 This is the start of Year 3 of the Blog. All life is here with its ups and downs, deaths and celebrations. I had hoped it might bring me back to my brothers and sisters and link … Continue reading →

12th December, 2010 This week draws the second year of the Blog to a close. I have never, in my life, kept a journal so consistently and for so long. So many things have happened in these two years. Pauline … Continue reading →

5th December, 2010 Had a lovely conversation with Ruth & Kev today. It took place after she texted me with quite flabbergasting news. She and Kevan were putting the bungalow home of 35 years on the market with the intention … Continue reading →

28th November, 2010  We went back to a development that we had been monitoring for over a year. The Pinnacles, ironically built in the grounds of the former St Peters Convent, Maybury Hill, Woking. It quite appeals to me – … Continue reading →

21st November, 2010 Sunday papers and then packing the car to go down to Surrey. In order to do that, we had to go back to the home of our old neighbours Jean & Perry (aka Dusty Springfield & Rod … Continue reading →

14th November, 2010 We become centurions this week – maybe alone but we’ve managed it. Pauline and I are desperately unhappy at the moment. We have moved in to a shoe box and, although we know it is temporary, we … Continue reading →

7th November, 2010 A quiet but cold and deliciously sunny day today much improved by confirmation that Woolas is absolutely stuffed. The Labour Party has cut him adrift. We went in to overdrive when we heard the football results: Arsenal … Continue reading →

31st October, 2010 Felt really quiet with Phyllis & Colin gone. There was no Colin to wash up or Phyllis to give me an excuse to open a bottle of wine. Tried to read the Sunday papers but fell asleep. … Continue reading →

24th October, 2010 A wet day, I spent it reading the papers and writing my funeral speech. Nice to see United & Liverpool win and City lose. 25th October, 2010 Gloriously sunny day after heavy frost first thing. We were … Continue reading →