As some of you who have known me longer might well know, my medical history is a little, chequered, to say the least. Being flippant I often say you’d struggle to even make an index up to them on my current medical situations, on one side of A4/Letter size paper. Throw in my family, and C’s side, and you might not know where to start.

To keep to ( Read more... )

Happy New Year peeps!

We started the year quietly, and have had a busy time since. Hence these are my first personal blogs of the year.

I've been rather busy of late, trying to squeeze in a lot of things, before and after our recent move.

I was talking with Caroline aka C - or on LiveJournal cmmathieson last week and decided to give the business a bit more time ( Read more... )

OK - it’s been a while since I posted here. Perhaps longer than I’d like, I’ll be honest. Having said that (a) it’s been busy, and (b) I have been posting a lot on the other blog - our new Transport blog at http://www.heretothereshop.com/blog - it lets me get deeper with transport than I used to do here - and it’s an excellent read (so I’m told) ( Read more... )

Aside from this post that was a lot shorter than I’d have liked, I’ve not done a lot of personal blogging this Summer. I now want to jump forward, and review the last three months (since The Tiger’s Last Stand). To cut down on  time, and to reduce the amount of writing about bad stuff, I thought I’d do an A-Z of the good feelings over the last ( Read more... )

As I mentioned here briefly, Saturday 14th May 2011 was the last day of Wootten’s Tiger Line Service T5. (The company have subsequently sold out to the Bowen Group, who own the York’s coach that I photographed in this post). I was in two minds as to whether to go, until the week before when I was making plans whilst on the Nene Valley Traveller ( Read more... )

It’s been a busy month just gone - so apologies for my blogging silence! In the meantime, I’ve had a record number of trips in one month - two days in Cambridge, plus ten others! These were a mixture of some last days, and some other interesting travels. I’ve also been applying to a few jobs that I’ve seen advertised, compiling PSVC sheets, working ( Read more... )