Here you will find out what goes off in the life of Daryl and his family and friends.
Special events, family occasions and anniversaries and views in general of the world about me will be put to the written record here.
It will be kept up-to-date, so pop back!
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posted 11 Feb 2012 14:04 by Daryl Lees
8th February would’ve been the 103rd birthday of my Grandma Greasley, my darling beloved Mamma, and she would have been 103 years old.
Her name was Lilian Frances Greasley and she was actually born on 9 February 1909, in Chichester, West Sussex, to Thomas Morris and his wife Helen.
She was the mother to my Mam Jill, and I absolutely adored her and thought the whole world of her - and I miss her so terribly so!
Always thinking of you gal and love and miss you so much… especially today sweetheart! xxxx |
posted 5 Feb 2012 17:21 by Daryl Lees
It is 60 years ago today that HM King George VI died in his sleep from lung cancer.
The then HRH Princess Elizabeth was with her husband HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in Kenya on part of a Commonwealth Tour representing her father, who couldn’t do the tour because of his health. She was informed in Kenya that her beloved father had died, and she was, the moment he died, The Queen.
She returned to the UK and was met off the aeroplane by her first Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, and other dignitaries, and later that day, she was proclaimed Queen Elizabeth II. Her mother, the then current Queen Elizabeth, was now the dowager Queen, and instead used a title created for her by her daughter, as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. She also kept her title Her Majesty, because she was married to The King.
Queen Elizabeth has seen so many changes throughout the UK in her 60 years, some have been for the best and some haven't, but her sense of dignity, grace, love of her country, devotion to her faith, and her unfaltering loyalty to all the people of the Commonwealth have made her one of the most famous people ever to have lived, especially in the 20th Century, and through not the 21st Century too!
Congratulations Your Majesty on your achievement today, and my thoughts are with you in the remembrance of your late father too. |
posted 20 Jan 2012 09:23 by Daryl Lees
My stepfather, Mac, has had his heart operation in King’s Mill Hospital yesterday. He was in theatre for three hours, but because of his medical conditions, and how ill he is, he couldn’t be put under general anaesthetic, so he was frozen around his chest, and the valve was fitted, without too much trouble with his blood.
Within half an hour of coming out from the theatre, he was sat up waiting for his tea to be brought him! He looks more well now, just one day after the operation than he has for a long time, and hopefully he may be let back home (to my place for a few days to convalesce) Monday. |
posted 18 Jan 2012 12:31 by Daryl Lees
It is my sister-in-law’s 51st birthday today.
Sandra is married to my brother Kevin and they have two children, Katrina and Kelvin.
I believe they have been out for a meal and then going out later… I hope she has a great day! |
posted 5 Jan 2012 13:42 by Daryl Lees
It is 15 years ago today that my beloved 'Mamma' - my Grandma Greasley passed away at the age of 87 years old.
She was born on 9 February 1909, in Chichester, West Sussex, to Thomas and Helen Morris. She was christened Lilian Frances and was the third child, of eventually eight children to the Morris family - another sister, Peggy, was born to her mother and her second husband, George Cousins. Her father, Thomas, was killed in France in 1917 in World War I, and her mother died at the young age of just 47 on 9 April 1932.
She married my grandfather, Frank, on 9 April 1931… and they had their first child, my Aunty Jean, on 3 January 1932. My mother, Jill, was then born on 14 March 1933 and then their only son, Frank Norman was born on 14 August 1937.
My Mamma had to become head of the family in 1939, with the outbreak of World War II, with my Grandad having to go to first Dunkirk, then Burma, for the duration. On 13 February 1941, at the age of just three years old, their son, Frank, was killed when he was run over by a bus outside their house in Annesley Woodhouse. It affected her very badly, and my mother and her sister Jean suffered greatly because of this, and because my grandfather wasn't there to help her through the grief (he was allowed only 24 hours leave) she never forgave him for it and it affected their relationship throughout their marriage.
On 25 November 1972, she became a widow when my Grandad Greasley passed away at the age of 62 years… and so began a quarter of a century of widowhood.
She was the most beautiful, kindest grandmother anyone could've ever wished for, and I miss her and love her so much, and always think of her with the most happiest of memories.
Be at peace Mamma, and one day we will be together forever, happy and free xxx |
posted 1 Jan 2012 00:31 by Daryl Lees
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Well... to be honest, it isn't new now, I have had it over two months, but have only just thought about putting it in my blog - sorry!
I purchased it in October, and because of my Alzheimer's Disease, I want to do some things I have never tried or done before, why I still can, and because I am only in the early stages of the disease - forgetful and sometimes slightly confused (some would say I have always been like that!) - and hopefully have a few years left where I can still be aware of things, I decided that I would like to try a Mac computer... well you will notice from one of my previous blogs, that I ventured into this with the Apple eMac I purchased earlier in the year... this whetted my appetite, and because the system was quite old (Mac OS X Tiger 10.4) and the specs weren't that good for modern computing nowadays, I decided to upgrade and 'go for it'. I got the Mac Mini at a very reasonable price, brand new, from the Apple Store, and to be honest, it blew my mind! I wished I had an Apple Mac all those years ago (well at least when Mac OS X was released) - it puts Windows and the Linux OS in the shade, it really does.
It has the latest Apple operating system, Mac OS X Lion 10.7, and really is smooth to run, hardly using any resources, and it only has 2GB of memory, but manages to run multiple things, quite comfortably. Installing 'Apps' is as simple as dropping the App into the Applications folder, and the Mac does the installing from there - no messing about with where to install, how to install - and when you are done, you just drag the App out of the Applications folder and into the Trash Bin, and thats it - it's uninstalled! No complicated uninstall to go through.
The one thing I will gripe about it though is the internet browsing... when you are on Flash pages, all the browsers that you can use on Mac OS X (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera etc) run very slowly, probably because I only have 2GB memory, and it saps it all - it isn't good with Flash at all - but that is a small price to pay for the quality, happiness and enjoyment the computer has brought me in the long run.
It is a shame that Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of Apple, died on the day I decided to have my first Apple computer... he was a very clever man, and probably told St Peter at the Pearly Gates, to put his pen down when he got to him, and said: "I have an App for that"! Be at Peace Steve, you can be very proud of what you achieved for all the world to use with your Apple products!
Congratulations Apple, on the invention of both the Mac Mini and your latest operating system, Mac OS X Lion - you have done the computing world proud! |
posted 30 Dec 2011 11:29 by Daryl Lees
Well, I hope all of you had have had a peaceful Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year celebrations.
We have all had quite a quiet Christmas in the 'Daryl Clan' family. I had my Mam and stepdad come and stay with me on Christmas Eve night so as they could spend the whole of Christmas with me, but my Mam, with her advancing dementia, gets very easily confused and frustrated when she is out of her own environment, and was thankful on Boxing Day when she went back to their secured accommodation flat just a mile or so away from me.
We got up Christmas morning, very early, and my nephew's fiancee and his children came round and opened their Christmas presents here with us at the flat, as we told them that Santa was coming here as well their own house, because my Mam and me both enjoy watching the kids open their presents... it makes it much more of a Christmas experience. From 8am, I was in the kitchen preparing the three-course Christmas dinner we all had... although with my illness, this year I had to have some extra help, so as I didn't forget what I was doing! We had soup, beef, pork and chicken, with all the seasonal vegetables, stuffing and gravy, and Christmas pudding and apple pie with cream or custard. Plus the compulsory Snowballs were liberally on flow, even the kids had a little one each and they relished it because they thought they were drinking adult 'pop'!
As Christmas Day is my nephew Roy's birthday too, we went to the local club, the Coronation Social Club for the evening, and Roy and I left about 9.30pm, because we wanted to get home and watch 'Absolutely Fabulous' on BBC One at 10pm! We saw most of our family and close friends in the club on Christmas night, and there was a disco on for family entertainment, but the club is nowhere as good as it used to be, and I really don't enjoy going in there at all now. I also don't drink at all now, with all the medications I am on for the Alzheimer's treatment and also depression and anxiety, so of course, just a few Snowballs made me feel light-headed because I haven't drank anything in nearly over a year!
As the New Year approaches... I am certainly not going to reflect too long on what was good about 2011... because, to me, absolutely nothing was! I was diagnosed with a long-term, terminal, progressive illness, had the stress of moving my mother and stepfather from the East Coast over to near to where I live, I have had to fight off evil allegations, which were described by official authorities who helped me through it all, as totally malicious and false with intent, and in October I lost a good, close friend, who I thought the world of... so most definitely I will be glad to see the back of 2011 - it has, without doubt, been definitely the worst year of my life, and wouldn't wish anyone to want to go through it.
So I hope that your New Year 2012, will be peaceful, happy and that you achieve all that you want to, because as I found out in 2011, you just don't know what is going to hit you from round the corner! Enjoy life - live it - before it's all too late to do what you wanted to do.
Peace and love be with you all. xxx |
posted 7 Oct 2011 05:56 by Daryl Lees
I have to announce the death of a very close friend of mine, James Paul Edwards, known to all his family and friends as Paul, who passed away yesterday at the age of 49 years old - just a few days short of his 50th birthday.
I had known him for many, many years and we worked together for nearly 10 years and during that time in the 1980s we became very good friends. We had some very good times and the occasional bad time... but all friends do - and I shall miss him so very much.
Be at peace Paul - I'll love and miss you always xx |
posted 2 Oct 2011 18:09 by Daryl Lees
 So, as I am progressing with my illness, and before I get too far gone with it, I have decided to see what it is like to use the Apple Mac computers - so I have decided to venture in and try one.
For obvious reasons, I haven't gone the full-hog expense of going brand new with the latest iMac or iBook computers, but have plumped for a 2005 eMac G4 all-in-one computer, brought off of eBay:
It's operating system is Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger release, with a 40GB HDD, 512MB Ram memory (which I am upgrading to 1.5GB) 32MB video memory, CD Drive, 17" monitor with a maximum resolution of 1280x960, built-in speakers with 18-watt stereo and built-in microphone, Ethernet Fast-speed for connection to the internet and 3 USB2 slots available - it isn't a brilliant up-to-date Mac computer, but will suit my needs just fine in my venture and experiment into a Mac computer. It should be with me by Wednesday, and I shall update this page then!
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posted 12 Sep 2011 11:12 by Daryl Lees
Yesterday, commemorations were held in New York, Washington, Pennsylvania and other parts of the world for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight 93, whose brave passengers sacrificed their lives by overpowering the terrorists in the cockpit and crashing the aeroplane into the ground in Shanksville. Since the event, the death toll then, and the subsequent deaths that have followed since the attacks has risen to well over 3,000 people - the worst terrorist atrocity the world has ever known.
the 11 September 2001 will always be remembered as a day that the whole World changed forever, in its idealism, radicalism, faith and belief in humanity, and we have been fighting a war against it ever since - will we succeed? I doubt I will be here to see it, but hopefully, one day, the whole of human-kind will unite and realise we all occupy Earth for a reason - and it certainly isn't nothing to do with God, Allah or any religion - it is all part of the existence of the Universe and how it works.
Politicians and fanatics should put less emphasis on their beliefs in religion and more their trust in humanity to work together and achieve world peace and harmony.
Long live Earth - and humanity - and peace to all those who lost their lives on that atrocious day 10 years ago. |
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