May

Not the best month for me, it started with being home with Covid, then getting my car stolen and written off, with no insurance because I had left the keys in the car, and also with the death of Bovril my black cat. All these things are discussed in a previous entry so I will try to find some more positive things.

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It was one week ago today that my mother died, peacefully in her chair sometime between getting up and taking her pills and 10 am when I tried to call her.

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I haven’t posted anything for five months ( Read more... )

Memory in itself is an enigma. We imagine that we can recall stuff accurately but when we compare stories with others we discover huge discrepancies, and that is why witness testimony always seems so dodgy. I distrust people who identify a stranger that they once saw from a photo, or can remember which day they saw something, because I certainly ( Read more... )

I slept until 4 when a ping from the phone woke me and then I couldn’t get back to sleep.
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The human brain loves to worry, for as soon as one problem is passed it finds another to obsess over. I am a typical human and have been worrying about my mother, Christopher, moving house, money and Marco ( Read more... )

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This is the time when we all tend to ask ourselves what we hope for in the next year, and whether this year lived up to our expectations...
Like most people I find upon reflection that there were good and bad moments, there have been slow realisations, and flashes of insight, and on the whole I am in a better state than I was this time last year.
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So I am a grumpy person who is always complaining about work, and colleagues and wishing her life were different. I finally have made some decisions about what I want, within the bounds of possibility, and I talked to the director of nursing care, and I have been accepted for a place in the nursing pool. I realised that a job that involves changing ( Read more... )

I don't know what the problem is, but I cannot get photobucket to work, and that has been going on for several days. :( I see from a checking site that they are having intermittent problems, so maybe it will clear next week ( Read more... )