An amazing day getting medical attention for my knee which turned out to have been fractured. I struggled to sleep later with that large contraption on my leg.
US acting legend Robert Redford, best known for roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, has died at the age of 89.
An amazing day that started with an early call to secure a doctor’s appointment; it then continued with a drive to the hospital where I had an examination and then a scan.
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This revealed that I had a cracked kneecap (Botella) and so they fitted a splint and forbade me to drive. I sat in the canteen for a while and then successfully raised Kathleen who drove to pick me up and take me home.
We had dinner together of half of a takeaway meal and then she left and soon Della arrived having collected my van and brought it back.
Diana was with her, and they went home together at the end of a very eventful day! I struggled to sleep later with that large contraption on my leg.
US President Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom this week will be no stranger to controversy, just as his first was six years ago.
Back then, in June 2019, as well as taking tea with the late Queen, the US President called London Mayor Sadiq Khan "a stone-cold loser", backed Boris Johnson in a Tory leadership race and suggested the NHS should be part of US-UK trade talks.
All this was accompanied by a petition saying he should not receive a state visit in the UK, signed by more than one million people, as well as noisy protests involving thousands and a huge inflatable effigy that became known as the Trump Baby.
This week's second state visit – unprecedented for a non-royal - will prove the first was no exception.
US acting legend Redford, best known for roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, has died at the age of 89.
In a statement, his publicist Cindi Berger, said: "Robert Redford passed away on September 16 at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah - the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy."
Tributes have been paid to the Oscar-winning star by actors including Meryl Streep and Jane Fonda.
Redford, also famous for founding Utah's Sundance Film Festival, won a best director Oscar in 1980 for Ordinary People. He announced his retirement from performing in 2018, having said in 2016 that he was "tired of acting".
My speech recognition detected and interpreted some of Della’s comments today.
“The parking was only ten pounds. I know I should have argued at the exit but I’m sorry I just didn’t have the energy today. It was a good evening to be running around, and it was fine as we took our dance class and then we sorted out the car. It’s a big white van which should have been quite easy to find but funnily enough there was about five big white bands it was like the last that I looked at. The sketch you gave me was good but I’m just bad at reading maps. Wasn’t that handy that I’ve driven that van recently which meant I got used to it. It was good to do it before it was in daytime so I had that practise session.”
I replied that Kathleen had been here she would be back in the morning,