It’s easy to lose track of the days when you’re retired and even more easy if you’re living with a mountain of paperwork that has to be waded through. Day in, day out, filling in forms, scanning, copying endless documents. Nothing unusual about that – but it has to be the most boring occupation and one of … Continue reading A DIFFICULT TRANSITION
Category: General
THE LATEST CRAZE
(this week’s post is not about Leaf and I. It’s been an eventful week about which I'm not yet ready to write. So here’s some ammo for those who feel like commenting, should I say venting!) What is the latest craze? I call it Trump-bashing. The world is in chaos, untold millions are suffering, we’re walking around … Continue reading THE LATEST CRAZE
CROSSING FINGERS
We’ve weathered this week’s storm – of one sort or another - as Leaf continues to do the craziest of stuff: emptying drawers, pulling things apart, refusing to take his prostate medicaments or go to bed and making a mess with his food. Two letters waiting to go the post were opened and contents removed – … Continue reading CROSSING FINGERS
SURRENDER
It’s been a crazy week, a week of medics, revelations and decisions. But first, what has Leaf been up to? Well, apart from calling me nasty names and generally assassinating my character, he’s hidden more stuff – must I clear the house? Another two doors have to be locked at night. He gets up before me, having … Continue reading SURRENDER
UNLEARNING
It has become very clear to me that Leaf is in a process of unlearning. It’s as though swathes of basic information are being deleted from his brain. This is happening in a variety of ways. It’s strange and disquieting to witness his inability to decode correctly the information he’s receiving into a coherent environment. Rationality no longer … Continue reading UNLEARNING
FRANKLY SPEAKING
I’m out on the terrace writing this – the snug is dark and I spend too much time in there anyway. Now we’ve reached the solstice and we’re told we must expect a very hot summer – let’s hope it ripens the tomatoes! I’m glad there’s a light breeze out here. It’s time for a break although holidays … Continue reading FRANKLY SPEAKING
ONCE A YEAR
This has been a wonderful weekend for us. I can’t remember when we last had one! It was my birthday and Leaf’s brother and sister-in-law, Roger and Carole, came to stay. During and since the lockdown, Leaf has been pretty low and needed a big uplift to help make up for the weeks of ‘social distancing’ and … Continue reading ONCE A YEAR
TAKING CARE OF …
What’s in a word? How often we hear that. Many words have multiple denotations and connotations. And the words we stress in any sentence, can completely alter the meaning usually within a given context. Example: We drove to London …. they drove somewhere else. We drove to London …. they took the train. We drove … Continue reading TAKING CARE OF …
LONG DIVISION?
These last few months have taught me many things. Things I hadn’t thought I would need to learn, at least not yet. Today I’m concentrating on separation and division. Living through enforced isolation has highlighted how much disability separates us, especially if our handicap is mental. A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Leaf is the fittest … Continue reading LONG DIVISION?
WHO SHOT LIBERTY ….?
Leaf and I think of NAOMI KLEIN as a top-class independent investigative journalist. We’ve read all her books and would recommend them to anyone who really wants to understand some of the most disturbing developments of the modern age. She gets to the heart of contentious issues with extensive research and high-level source material along … Continue reading WHO SHOT LIBERTY ….?
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