Family
Picnic - whole family - September 2008
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OUR DIARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES IN February 2009
During February, things have begun to get back to normal. I am
well on the road to full recovery and have started to resume normal activities.
Feb 2nd: Mr Shipolini
had to postpone the planned review of my surgery. He wasd 'snowed in' and couldn't get to Swindon.
Feb 3rd: In spite of the contiuning snow, the Open House
Lunch went ahead with slightly reduced numbers. Meg Atkinson MBE of SASRA was the speaker.
Feb 4th: We heard that our friend Margaret Girvin (who had lived
in Poole) had had a heart attack and died suddenly last Saturday.
Feb 8th: At church today, we heard that our Moderator, Bev Savage,
has become engaged!
Feb 9th: I took my first drive since the operation. It was an experimental drive to see if I could do it.
It worked OK
Feb 10th: I
drove myself to the hairdressers!
Feb 11th: I attended my first Full Governors' Board meeting at Broad Town School, since my operation
Feb 12th: I did another 'experimental' drive, but this time
in the Xantia. Once again it went OK. Later I drove myself to Taw Hill Surgery.
Feb 13th: Our daughter-in-law, Diana, came to spend overnight
with us.
Feb 15th: We went to Julian and Fiona for Sunday lunch. I drove the Xantia as far as the first service station
on the M4 - my first motorway driving. In the evening there was an excellent celebration of the 25th anniversary of
Mission England on Songs of Praise on the BBC. I should have been in the recording, but I was in hospital at the time.
Feb 16th: We went to Bournemouth for the funeral of Margaret
Girvin - and afterwards to the 'Wake' at her mother's former home. Then back home to Swindon. I drove as
far as Chievley on the M4 on the way there.
Feb
17th Now that I am over 80, we qualify for free cavity wall installation, and the work was done
today.
Feb 18th: Jacky
and family came to lunch (driven by Chris, Rachel's friend).
Feb 19th: Marilyn went to a planning meeting for the Womens' World Day of Prayer
(in which she is doing a reading)
Feb 20th:
I spent the morning updating the comprehensive inded for the Arthur Ransome Society publication Mixdd
Moss 2008
Feb 21st: We
went to the 80th birthday party for Pauline Young (who had been on my staff at the Evangelical Alliance in 1954) I showed
the film His Land.
Feb 23rd: We did a big drive around Swindon all the morning, calling in at several places.
Feb 26th: I went to Great Western Hospital for a CT Scan as part of the conclusions for my operation
etc.
Feb
27th: There was a (fairly good) classical music concert at church tonight.
Feb 28th: We had a good morning at Lechlade Garden Centre
I'd love to know if you have read this account of our monthly activity. Would you send me an eMail to mauricerow@btinternet.com
to say 'Been in and read that' and tell me who you are!
