‘The worst floods in a thousand years …’ ‘… biblical proportions …’ My heart goes out to those poor souls in areas devastated by the torrential rains of the last week. Lives lost, livelihoods in tatters, cherished possessions washed away, homes not only uninhabitable but uninsurable, unsellable … misery writ large. Puts the inconvenience of [...]
We’ve lived in our present 19th century house for 38 years and one month. And my husband has now decided the time has come for him to cut another loft hatch in the upstairs landing. No, not because of increasing girth, not even to accommodate decreasing mobility, but ‘in case the water tank needs to [...]
Remembrance day. I’m writing this in the last fifteen minutes of it. So it’s perhaps right that I’m feeling sombre, reflective. But it’s more than 11.11.09. I’m thinking of unsung heroes from another kind of battle.
I’ve just been watching the programme aired yesterday on BBC 1 about parents of severely disabled children; awed by [...]
How’s your mental stability this week? Mine’s been seriously under scrutiny, I can tell you.
It’s all this reading. And not just any old reading; almost all of it novels that feature Alzheimer’s – otherwise known as ‘the competition’. Day after day, night after night. Mammoth stints, made possible by lots of knitting. I don’t [...]