Month January 2005

Unfortunately I was wrong about the duck and instead of finding her sat on an egg, she was dead when I went to let them out yesterday. There were no signs of any damage or illness, and she didn’t feel…

Friday we went to Gateshead. Ian had an appointment in Gateshead in the afternoon so I thought I’d go to the Metrocentre. I only had an hour or so there, and it would have taken much more than that to…

We had a good day at the jumble sale last Saturday. Ian was practising his elbow moves all morning, ready to do battle with the little old ladies. However he was outclassed and intimidated and adopted a new technique which…

I haven’t seen this yet, but apparently we’re featured in A Place in the Sun magazine this month as the couple considering a move abroad. See page 112 if Kate is correct. Kate has been renamed Nicola, though I’m not…

Well, Tuesday morning I thought blearily how dark it all looked even though the lights were on, and Ian told me we needed a new microwave. Then he found the shower wasn’t working. But the radio was. We then realised…

When we woke up Saturday morning we had no power and a tree had bought down our telephone line. Some tiles were missing from the stable, and the wind and rain was still coming down. Because we had no…

Remember – I took this after the flood waters had subsided. 

Back of the civic centre and front of the police and fire stations 

Getting into the civic centre (although I don’t know why they didn’t break a window and get in via a boat) 

The civic centre