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With Bethan working in London, during the week it is just Hobbes and I at home. While Hobbes is great company on his morning walk he does have limitations during the evening when all he tends to do is stretch...

Last Friday we took Hobbes, Bethan’s Springer spaniel of high breeding but low behaviour, back to the specialist vet centre for what we prayed was his final visit. He had long ago consumed his insurance threshold with the same ease...

I love the end of February in the northern hemisphere. I don’t feel quite so like a mole anymore - there’s at least a hint more light when I leave the house in the mornings and the office in the...

The end of the month of January means different things to different people. For me, it is the demise of the first “dark month”, dark months being January and February, and being the longer of the two, a positive signal...

HD 430 Digital Hearing Aid I had two interesting conversations with customers in the last few days which started me thinking about the variety of consultation approaches adopted by private hearing aid dispensers in the UK. Whilst there can be...

My mother recently embarked on a trip to the National Theatre to see Warhorse by Michael Morpurgo, accompanied by two of her teenage granddaughters – my youngest niece and my daughter. Clearly she is teetering on the verge of insanity...

Living with an Army officer who works in MoD does have some advantages. Unfortunately she is away all week and this morning when her beloved dog had vomited all over the kitchen floor I feel that am entitled to a...

Eureka! What a difference a year - and some quality hearing aids - made to my sanity. Not that I am yet in need of one of these devilish little devices but my magnificent parents were, even though they have...

Well Christmas is done and dusted for another year. I can only hope that whoever reads this, and I know there are one or two of you, had as good as time as I did. Perfect company, perfect food (although...