Travel
My Mum, the Elephant and Me #4: Doing the needful…
Yes, well, I’ve neglected my blog. You’ll all know why, but why not set it all out? It’s about time, after all. This is what happened: I returned from India in mid February pleased and excited about the place for my mother at the Dignity Foundation’s Dignity Lifestyle...
A little bit of history
My mother has dementia. Fiercely independent, she lives in conditions that healthy people might call squalid. She has not been well for the last couple of weeks. She has chest and urinary infections and, though she protests otherwise, it is...
On faceless, unaccountable power tripping civil servants
Thought I’d share my letter of complaint to the Passport Agency, just in case it gets "lost": Good evening. I have been helping my elderly mother with her passport renewal application. My mother is 79 and now has mid-stage Alzheimer's-related dementia so is...
Medieval Fair in Chateauneuf du Pape
It's my birthday today and I'm on holiday in France with my husband. We are staying at the hotel where we honeymooned (is that a verb?) 19 years ago. A rest in the sunshine is just the ticket after yet another trying and stressful year. The children, funnily enough,...