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We’ve given up on Morrison’s. We’ve been having home deliveries for some months and there have been many times when items have been missing or substituted. Last Saturday the missing items were steaks, pork chops, chicken and black pudding, so no meals for the weekend! Apparently they had a rush in the shop on the previous Friday. We’re now back to shopping in person at Lidl Bingham and Waitrose Newark, with occasional trips to the Gonalston farm shop. Lidl’s prices are amazing cheap. It’s hardly worth them charging you for the food! The quality’s good as well.

....And right back in the groove; a bit of Northern soul. 'Be young be foolish but be happy.' All in the past now but today I'll welcome 'young at heart' and 'be happy' but will draw a line under 'be foolish'. Had a big enough dose of that when I was young.

I remember it well Chris. I spent a week 'house sitting' for my brother, and took the opportunity to do a lot of overdue stuff in Nottm. For example..I travelled the entire length of the Tram system..seeing parts of Nottingham I'd never seen before.. As to the castle. I was a bit late turning up that day and arrived at the castle all of a fluster. I asked the chap on the gate if he'd seen a party of old folks who looked a bit confused.. but he hadn't. The entrance fee was £5, but I was assured that would last me for six months... Such a benefit was, to me, about as much use a

it certainly wasn’t me Ben lol - I’m a blue eyed girl and I was already busy being a mum to my first baby in 1967…

1967......Great year.......loved a special 'Brown eyed Girl''.... Do you remember when..we used to sing?''Sha la sha la sha la te dah.....As we walked along the shore..down Skeggy way....

Jill just logged on I am so sorry about your mum , your right about the PD test my first consultant did just what you said. Walk to that door humm well he said I 'll tell you now what you have got you won't die from you have Parkinson's, and I must admit the nurses do seem to know more and when you see them each six months they get to know you and you get to know them. they are like a friend and with seeing them each time you feel as though you can tell them any thing.

At the time, Nonna, MSA and PSP were little understood and few medics had even heard of them. It speaks volumes that the specialist nurse had a greater knowledge than several consultants. The diagnostic test for Parkinson's involved watching the person walk up and down the corridor. As low tech as you can get. It is still much the same. MSA and PSP fall under the Parkinson's umbrella of disorders of the substantia nigra of the brain but the medication that can benefit a Parkinson's sufferer has no effect at all on those other maladies, except horrendous side effects. In the not to

Friday we ventured out for a planning session for a new bathroom and whilst out took the opportunity to shop at Morrisons. To say we were shocked at the lack of masks or any form form of distancing is an understatement. Shop assistants gathered in the self serve tills gossiping away, couples blithely wandering about with not a mask between them, sanitising stations I wouldn't go near and I lost count of the number of folk who think noses do not need covering. In the last year I've gone from reluctant acceptance of the restrictions to almost evangelical but it seems I'm peeing into the win

As long as the big gorilla is still lurking round the corner in his glass case.