• When is a holiday, not a holiday? When it is house sitting for a fortnight 20mins drive up the road. Rachel and I spent two weeks staying on [...]

  A change is as good as a rest

  May 21, 2012
• So Carers Week 2010 starts on Monday 14th and its very likely you won’t see any blogs, tweets or Facebook messages from me. It isn’t [...]

  For Carers Week I will be mostly doing…nothing

  June 11, 2010
• Things will be a bit quiet this week. I’m off for four days in Spain – you don’t get many Euros for your Pound these days. [...]

  Four days in the sun

  September 14, 2008
• This time next week I will have been in Spain for 24 hours on some spurious male bonding thing. The four-day visit has been in the diary for six [...]

  I need respite from my own head

  September 9, 2008

• Well, it is good to be back I guess…kind of. A very enjoyable 10 days away (more of which later) and we arrived home last night after a [...]

  Back and forth

  August 18, 2008
• So it is going to be quiet in these parts for a while. Rachel and I are heading off for our great northern road trip later today and Fly is [...]

  Its all gone quiet over here

  August 7, 2008
• I love every minute of being Rachel’s husband, friend and lover. I’ve even started to come to terms with my role as her carer. There [...]

  Husband, friend, lover and carer. What about gatekeeper?

  July 29, 2008