Month: February 2017

A day full of unexpected action.  a man from a will company came along to help me write my will. Evidently only 52% of people have written a will and he told me about the problems that can arise when people die intestate. It is not true that your partner or the person you are living with, will inherit the money. I also heard about capital gains tax which is payable when the individual wealth is...

This is the day of my eye appointment during which my eyes are examined for a stability or reversal of my macular degeneration. you never know how long you're going to be in the hospital. It could be three hours. I don't complain because if I had the job done privately would be about £1500 a visit. As it happened I did need another injection. injections in the eye must sound pretty for bidding...

My wife works for AgeUK to assist in a day centre. I decided to take the day off and go to Trowbridge. it is on the Avon and Kennett canal, has some industry and a very modernised town centre with a good museum but apart from that is fairly unremarkable. I started off at the town Hall information bureau which I found the most remarkable and well-organised place with leaflets neatly laid out....

This morning at 10 AM we went to see a garden to give a quote for work. There was a huge orchard full of brambles and trees that need to be trimmed, an area of brambles behind the house and another area by its side. I reckon it was a good three days for two people so the price was £795. The lady declined the quote, but asked me for a quote for the smaller elements, 10% of the job, but I said...

We went to our lovely Bread and Beyond cafe and I had a wonderful beer and pork pie for £4.95 which filled me up for most of the rest of the day. We then went to one of the National Garden scheme's open garden and saw acres of spring flowers including snowdrops. This mature garden had only been started in 1962 when it was little better than a field. It's amazing how much the love and caring...

At 3.30 this morning I was listening to Radio Five Live.    there was an expert answering questions about devices, gadgets etc. I texted a question  about my sky plus box. Why was the hard disk running all the time? The experts said it was less wearing to keep it on than stopping it and starting it. he said that in the future there would be greater use of solid state memory. it's amazing how...