Year: 2019

8.15 am: A communion. The side effects from the antibiotics were beginning to kick in; and I’ve a month of this to endure. Today would be my final opportunity to…

8.20 am: Off to the surgery for my third blood test. The nurse will have only two days off at Christmas. That’s all the holiday that staff can afford. During…

Choose righteousness before happiness, comfort, prosperity, fulfilment, health, and personal need. Tuesday, December 17. We took a final walk alongside The Meadows, bought Christmas presents at a memorabilia shop nearby,…

9.30 am: Late breakfast. 10.15 am: Onto the cold sunlit streets towards Holyrood and Arthur’s Seat via Greyfriars Kirkyard (again): We noticed on the upper-wall of a shop overlooking the…

9.40 am: Onto this streets heading towards St Columba’s Church. The temperature was going to be 5 degrees lower than it is in Aberystwyth today. J. K. Rowling worshipped at…

9.00 pm: Late rise. What the heck! Strange kitchen. ‘How do you turn the oven on? Is there a non-stick saucepan for our porridge (which is now promoted as a…

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. Breath goes forth, he returned to his earth; in that very day…

7.30 am: ‘Get breakfast done!’. 8.30 am: The big day. The world reflected in the still pools of rain: I passed the Polling Station on Stanley Road; business was already…

8.15 am: A communion. 8.40 am: An unusual and foreboding sky – a dark-light – covered the seaward side of the town. The day looked like it was ending even…

8.40 am: Into inclemency, as it were; the rain drove under my umbrella; the wind pushed me backward down Llanbadarn Road. The Old College’s West Classroom was quieter in the…