One of my favourite spots by the sea is just a ten minute walk from my Brixham home. I thought it was a secret. But then a few years back one of the national newspapers named Fishcombe Cove as one…
It’s been a funny old week. Until Friday afternoon I was waiting for a hospital doctor to certify my Dad’s death so that his body can be released for cremation and the family can register his death. It took some…
My Dad passed peacefully this week at the age of 94. He’d been on the palliative care caseload for a while in Essex so this was, to a degree, expected. It was a good death. I think that he decided…
My Dad is still in hospital and has been really poorly again this week. There was even enough improvement for him to be transferred to the community hospital in town. But then he got unwell again and was ambulanced back…
Just after the week where I booked a holiday because life has quietened down Dad went into hospital. Mum called me in the middle of the night and I hurried around to their bungalow in my pyjamas and called an…
Here’s a hobby that many of us up the ante on when we stop work. To be honest I wasn’t very green fingered in my earlier life. In fact, as a singleton I chose my house with its small backyard…
