Whatever happened to Nuclear Rod Man?

I was tiding up the blog and realised that I had written the following post, but failed to publish it.

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We did get chance not only to talk to him, but Mike ended up spending quite a lot of time with Tony as you can read here:
NHS money saving exercise

It turned out that Tony had Leukaemia. After his chemo he was advised to have a bone marrow transplant, with his sister as donor as if it came back he would be over the 60 year age limit. We last heard from him September time when he told us he had contracted pneumonia and was back in hospital. We have often thought of him and have just sent him a text to see how he is. Fingers crossed he replies or we'll only start worrying! Right pair of old mother hens!

Hampered by the snow.

I know it's only December 1st, but it feels like Christmas has come early. We haven't had anywhere near as much snow as other parts of the country, but have had just enough to make the garden look like a Christmas card, well it did before big builders in big boots trampled on it while taking down some scaffolding. Toni still managed to find some fun in it though.

Then this arrived:


I won't bore you all to tears with the details, let's just say that The Woolwich, who are now owned by Barclays, are going to need more than a food hamper to make things up to me. It contains:

• 1 bottle red wine
• 1 bottle white wine
• 1 bottle Cava
• 1 jar of pickled onions (don't they know I make my own?)
• 1 jar of pineapple and mango chutney (I'm suspicious of it)
• 1 jar of orange marmalade with whisky (no actual whisky)
• 2 jars of strawberry conserve with champagne (no real champagne just the cava)
• Various cakes and biscuits
• Fudge, nougat and praline chocolates
• Box of Yorkshire teabags (?)
• French vanilla ground coffee (??)
• Pheasant Pate (!?!?)

I like my food, but I'm not that easily bought.