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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Mother's Day
Another extract from the final draft (still in progress) of my memoir of my time as my mother's full-time carer at the end of her life. So March wore...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - A day out
I've almost completed the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir about my time spent as my mother's full-time carer during the final months of her life...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (5) (ii)
It was a hard decision. But a month later saw her sailing out of Liverpool on the Royal George with everything she owned in the world crammed into a...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (5) (i)
As Tom got older, they would sometimes find different things to do in the evenings. Mum might sit him on her lap in the back room, and they'd try to...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Reflection
I'm continuing with the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir/journal based on my time as my mother's full-time carer for the last few months of her life...
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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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Naturally, I've had to
Posted on Sat, 07 Sep 2024
Naturally, I've had to amalgamate some episodes, and do a little invention. It's inevitable with anything autobiographical. It was 20 years ago, after all. We don't always remember things accurately, too. But many of the memories are very clear...
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Brilliant!
Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024
Brilliant!
I was a 'dunce' at school - in spite of being bright. Had to wait until 56 to get the solution.
I've never had a problem with metaphors, figures of speech and figurative language. I love slang and things like that. But...
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Reminds me though, Terrence,
Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024
Reminds me though, Terrence, of a story told to me by a teacher who'd worked with autistic children at a special school in Bulgaria. Every morning, some of the kids would come in and set off the fire alarms - and the teachers couldn't understand...
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Exactly what I said to the
Posted on Wed, 04 Sep 2024
Exactly what I said to the woman at KCC when she asked 'Is it likely to cause danger?' They've said it's okay for now - not damaging the road or anything. But the slime is making it slippery. And, as you say, when it's icy. The main problem...
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I've gotten quite a way into
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
I've gotten quite a way into it. But I've sidelined it for now. It was meant to be a memoir about my 20 years in social care, and the various organisations - private, charity and public - I've worked for. Mainly, too, I envisaged it as a...
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The alarm bells are justified
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
The alarm bells are justified. One of the worst abusers I've had the misfortune to work with. A horrible bully - he and his wife together. A colleague and I ended up blowing the whistle on them. But they got off for lack of firm evidence (as...
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