Sue woke me at 5.00 this morning to tell me that our son wasn’t very well. She had just spent the last hour with him, including half an hour on the phone to NHS Direct (a telephone helpline system run by the National Health Service). He appeared to have a urinary infection and would have […]

Sunday was just about the most perfect day I could imagine.
It didn’t start of too well to begin with. We woke up late and Sue had to jump out of bed to get our son up to do his paper round. So we missed our usual early morning cuddles.
I stayed on in bed for a […]

Well, last night was a very weird night.
We had sex again, which makes 4 times in 8 days. Don’t get any ideas that we are going to continue having sex every 2 days because I can’t stand the pace! But the circumstances were very weird.
It all started off as a fairly routine kind of night. […]

Last Thursday
In the mornings I take the dog for a walk and, when she’s not working or doing other things, my wife usually joins me. I really enjoy our morning walks together, but I had been hatching a plan for a while and I decided that it was time to put in into action.
So I […]

Last night I was sitting on the sofa watching football on TV (Man Utd v Lyon) with my laptop on my lap as usual, when Sue sat down on the sofa next to me. I put my laptop away ready for her to snuggle up against me but she didn’t - she sat about 2 […]

There was an article in the newspaper yesterday about the compatibility (or incompatibility) of couples sleeping in bed. Apparently in a recent survey half of the couples admitted that they are incompatible when it comes to sleeping with their partner.
They also suggested that people are either ‘poles’ (sleeping apart, often back to back) or ’spoons’ […]