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Cleanliness is next to..
I’ve just had a wonderfully frustrating few days in which I feel quite lucky to have avoided trench foot. I think I have, but it’s been a close call. I love my garden, which I have stupidly designed so there … Continue reading
Un rewilding.
If you keep a weather eye on what is happening in the world of gardening shows there is a tendency towards unfettered rewilding, which reached its nadir in some remarkably derelict gardens at Chelsea. Rewilding in the larger world is … Continue reading
Some cards.
When I’m not miniaturising, doll making, gardening or online shopping (which you should not do late at night, when tired with a credit card), (as my grandmother used to say: Don’t do what I do, do what I tell you) … Continue reading
A bit off.
Me. I am. A bit off. Pains in the guts and just a bit off. I should not be surprised. Like everyone who does regularly not enjoy good health, I dread being poorly again. I haven’t been well ever since … Continue reading
Plan B for carers.
When the bombshell that is a dementia diagnosis hits, it can be difficult to access any kind of logical thinking. From my own experience and the messages from many primary carers, after the initial shock there seems to be a … Continue reading
The wrong one wins.
In defiance of my sitting watching television promotes brain fog ethos, I do make a point of watching two programmes. They are: The Wrong One Wins – People and The Wrong One Wins – Places. You may know them as … Continue reading
Falls.
It’s a terrible topic to write about but needs to be addressed. Sooner or later your demented relative will have a fall. I hear that SMIL has had yet another fall, this time she has a black eye and cuts … Continue reading
Behaviour in dementia.
Things have not been going so well for my demented step-mother-in-law in a nursing home. She has been biting the other residents. The home itself has been suffering from notable changes in staff and new management, everything is in a … Continue reading
Changing landscapes part two.
Have you found me for part two? The bloke was up the dodgy tree with what looked, from the bedroom window, like a bit of string to tie him on and a dinky little chainsaw, that didn’t look big enough … Continue reading
Changing landscapes.
There are few occurrences as unsettling as the changing of the landscape by drastic natural means. A few years ago residents of the seaside town in which I grew up, exchanged photographs across the world when the sea stack, which … Continue reading