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The Rest of My Life: Retirement Day!

By HarryC on Mon, 12 May 2025

When my alarm went off at 5:05 am this morning, I switched it off. For the last time! Today was my last day at work. Retirement Day! I went through...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Photographs

By HarryC on Sat, 04 Jan 2025

I'm going through a final reading of 'Gift' - my memoir about caring for my mother in her final months. I thought I'd post this short section. It's...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (ii)

By HarryC on Sun, 15 Dec 2024

In spite of her cold, mum had rallied over Christmas and had been much more her old self. The warnings were never far away, though... The rest of...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)

By HarryC on Sun, 15 Dec 2024

Another excerpt from my book about my time as mum's full-time carer during her last months of life. She confounded medical expectations by not only...
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Tom All Alone (7) (ii)

By HarryC on Fri, 13 Dec 2024

"You still awake, Russell?" - "Russell?" "Shut up and go to sleep." "I want to see Father Christmas." "You saw Father Christmas in Selfridges." "I...
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Absolutely.  And they almost

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Absolutely.  And they almost resolutely ignore that.  Corporations like Amazon and Google, too, who use our buildings and infrastructure and get away with paying no or little tax.  It defeats me how it's allowed to happen.  I guess it comes down...

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I can hear Tom in every word

Posted on Sun, 15 Sep 2024

I can hear Tom in every word - in that 'The Piano Has Been Drinking' voice!

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He's not kidding me - just as

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

He's not kidding me - just as Blair didn't.  Labour is Labour in name only now.   As a lifelong socialist, my conscience is clear in not helping this wanker get elected.  Well said, Yutka. 

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First class!

Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024

First class!

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The 'double empathy' problem

Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024

The 'double empathy' problem helps to explain it.  If you get two people together from entirely different cultures, with no sharing of language, belief system, cultural norms, etc... they'll have the same problem.  I've a theory that it's at the...

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Same here.  Chuckling all the

Posted on Fri, 13 Sep 2024

Same here.  Chuckling all the way.  Laughed out loud at

'You turn to the wife and kids. They are sitting in the car. The signs are bad but they still have hope.'

And 'The Majestic Hote.' Great!

Made me think of a Denzel...

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Thanks, Di.  I'll never

Posted on Thu, 12 Sep 2024

Thanks, Di.  I'll never forget that moment.  It didn't take long after this, incidentally, for Greg to become my 'right-hand man'.  I ended up being able to get him to do anything!  It was wonderful.

Thanks for the cherries, too, eds!

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Can't help wondering how much

Posted on Tue, 10 Sep 2024

Can't help wondering how much 'War is good for business' comes into decision-making, too.  Greased palms, donors with influence.  Snouts in the trough.  And fear of the media/establishment wielding the old 'anti-semitism' brickbats again.

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Thank you!  I keep thinking

Posted on Tue, 10 Sep 2024

Thank you!  I keep thinking these are a bit rambling, and keep abandoning them.  This is very encouraging.

I set out with the idea of writing about all of my 20 years in care - but this first job, which I had on and off over a 5-year...

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Quite.

Posted on Tue, 10 Sep 2024

Quite.

'Do try and keep a straight face.'

...and hide the other one.

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