I’m sure I’m not the only person waking us this Sunday morning and watching that new Donald Trump video with a regretful degree of scepticism. I want to think good things about his recovery but how can you when you know you’re being played? First, the video was released alongside pictures of the President working […]
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Rest day… I am knackered.
Continue ReadingSpecsavers Save The Day…
It had bothered me. I’ve spent my time today writing a longish piece (you can now read it over yonder) or putting together a short animation (purely as a bit of relief) and all the time I’ve been wondering why Warrington Specsavers no longer do home visits around here. I mean, this really bothered me. […]
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Felt like more of a normal day. Just finished a piece on the latest development in Trumpworld… Fascinating stuff. Should appear later today over at Reaction. In other news: the Welsh male voice choir are still camped out beneath my mother’s bedroom window and she’s getting mightily pissed off with them. I must admit, I’ve […]
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Hard to get going today. A bit of normality – the thing I’ve been dreaming of for days – but I find that my brain won’t work. I think it’s exhaustion but it’s also hard to break that sense that I’ll be dashing around doing something in the next five minutes. My Mum’s now taken […]
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The first one has now disappeared down the hatch. It was the same hatch that subsequently scoffed a big plateful of Ravioli on toast and then proceeded to explain why Jimmy Carter was a much better president than people remember. We’ve had quips, sarcastic jibes, and lots of laughter. Two days ago, I had a […]
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Here’s an unexpected twist in the tale. So, I paid for a private GP consultation which happened this afternoon. I explained the situation, the symptoms, the whole Enchilada (whatever that means). The doctor was totally understanding, thought it was sensible of me to push for the antibiotic since, she said, it’s the standard treatment for […]
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My mum seems more coherent this morning. The delirium of yesterday is very mild. She thinks she can hear church music. The little boys and girls of yesterday have, touch wood, kept away, and she’s now enjoying American news coverage of last night’s debate. I don’t expect it to last but compared to yesterday morning, […]
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I am so tired. I’m also not sure what I’m doing. My Mum is “better” than yesterday when we rang 999 but the delirium is still worrying. She keeps saying there are people standing in the room. It’s scary. The GP has refused to prescribe an antibiotic on account of my Mum’s age and the […]
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Our ongoing crisis reached a bit of a peak yesterday when I found myself dialling 999. I don’t really want to get into the weeds about the day but we think my Mum has a UTI, which is apparently common in the elderly. She had one a few years ago that left her rambling (another […]
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Dear Blog. Dear Friends. Dear anybody who reads this. Life continues to be a touch on the difficult side. Didn’t sleep last night with anxiety. Well, perhaps I caught an hour before I woke up with panic. My mum’s still suffering with this mysterious condition. I thought we’d got over the worst of it last […]
Continue ReadingWinner, Winner, Chicken Dinner…
This past week, other than my duties which I won’t drone on about, I cleaned up my office, demolished my drawing “studio”, and shoved my TV in its place thinking that I need to start to relax a little more than I do. My plan was to find a game (hopefully a little old so […]
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I’m a bit hyper-alert to looming trouble at the moment, so a minor event this morning escalated to me on the phone trying to get a consultation with the doctor. In fairness to me, we probably needed it and it does no harm to have them keep an eye on my mum given her ongoing […]
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Had a day of unexpected bureaucratic mither (my favourite northern word), which is now resolved but was a distraction from what I intended on doing, writing a proper full-on blog post. It means I haven’t got time, but I’ll push on anyway. People’s favourite Prime Minister-in-waiting, Rishi Sunak, has announced more “help” for the self-employed […]
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Slightly lazy today by which I mean I’ve not been as crazy busy as I’ve been over the past few days. I’m hoping that things are settling down but it’s really never certain. Treating every day as it comes. All I do know is that I’ve not been getting the peace and quiet that I […]
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