MND can get in the sea

I didn't write the blog last week because we really didn't do much. Apart from a DJ session where I and the other DJ's played some Christmas related tunes, I struggled to think of anything of interest that Alice or I had done. I played Stiff Little Fingers version of White Christmas and the Dickies version of Silent Night and I thought I had done quite well, but I was outdone by Darren playing Christmas Rapping by Kurtis Blow, and Tom playing two tunes from his Christmas Tijuana Jazz album. This last week though, we have both been very busy and Christmassy! The week started with a mince pie party at my mum's on the island. It's a family tradition that has been happening since I was young. Mum would bake hundreds of mince pies, dad would make the mulled wine, and us children were tasked with passing the pies around to my parents friends. These days the mince pies are bought and it's just a small family affair with sadly less and less atten...

November drifted into December last week and significant anniversaries were observed. On November 27th 2007 I started working at Southampton General and on my very first day, I met a pretty nurse called Alice and 17 years later we celebrated by working on a jigsaw puzzle, and cleaning out Teddy's litter tray.  Teddy was 3 years old two days later and he celebrated by trying to eat the jigsaw pieces, or just sitting on the jigsaw itself so that we can't make any progress.  On December 6th we we observed the first anniversary of losing our lovely Frankie. He was a talented musician with a gentle soul, but unfortunately, he never got the breaks he needed. We miss him terribly.  Alice and I attended an engagement party for our friends Anna and Glen, and Kevin and Perry came second in the fancy dress competition, ahead of Freddie Mercury, but behind Adam Ant. They also took to the stage as Elton and Kiki to perform Don't Go Breakin...