In the winter of 2011 I took my son Louis to Yellowstone for his first visit. We shared the park with a group of people on a photography course. Goodness me the kit they carried around. Some of those lenses…
Things are looking up! Mum came out of hospital this week after a bout of hyponatremia. That’s low blood sodium in common parlance. From the amount of salt that she’s putting on her dinner, she has no intention of going…
In the throes of singledom I met an interesting guy online. He’d stipulated that he was unwilling to share his life with animals. In fact I’m pretty sure that his dating profile was ‘No Pets’. ‘Are you absolutely certain you…
I bet there’s a bunch of apps on your phone that, not only do you and I have them in common, but we access them on a regular basis. Modern life would look very different without this shared experience of…
Mum’s back in hospital and she spent the whole week there poor thing. Fingers crossed that they find out what’s wrong with her this time around. So I’ve been to-ing and fro-ing for visiting time with Dad. But have I…
At the time when I wrote this post I’d been at my parent’s house caring for my Mum and Dad. The possessions that I have with me fit into a large Decathlon rucksack. This comes highly recommended and doubles up…
If I was a guest on the long running Radio 4 series ‘Desert Island Discs’ I’d be hard pressed to choose my eight records. My favourites change all the time. The book would be tricky too. But I definitely know…
Oh boy! I’ve been busy. But it’s a shorter post than usual because I haven’t got a huge amount to report. A carer’s life is not an exciting one. But a bungalow completion is on the horizon and then some…
Just before retiring I went through an existential crisis. I know because someone in the mental health assessment team told me. She said that my heightened anxiety wasn’t down to diagnosable mental illness. Rather I was in a veritable shit…
