Letter from my Dad

I was on hold on the phone for over an hour this morning, so while I was waiting I pottered around my bedroom and I found an old 'secret' diary from 1986, and inside I found a little treasure which was a letter from my Dad, dated 3rd December 1986. He writes his address as: …

Time and Again

Quick Summary of the Episode As Voyager starts to make its way through the Delta Quadrant on its way home to the Alpha Quadrant, they pass a planet which has been decimated by a polaric energy disaster. When the away team go to investigate, Janeway and Paris are pulled back in time to just before …

Citalopram – adverse reaction

I haven't posted recently, on any of my blogs, because I have really not been well (mostly physically, but that has an impact on mental health too of course). I always seem to be worse in the summer for some reason, and even though (thank God!) I'm not suffering from hayfever to anything like the …

Here we go again

Mum was with us for 6 months while I attempted to function as her carer. For various reasons, it did not work out, and we took her home again in March and have arranged for professional carers to be on hand to look after her. My caring duties have not completely finished, but I now …

First Sunday of Advent

Psalms: Psalm 122 OT: Isaiah 2:1-5 Gospel: Matthew 24:36-44 Epistles: Romans 13:11-14 The Psalm for today was 122, "I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord." I was unable to go to church this Sunday because, in addition to my own health issues, I am now …

Sudden Changes

I thought I would post an up-date, as it has been a while and a lot of things have changed. It became apparent that it would have been impossible to leave my mum on her own - we had done everything we could to try to get NHS carers, but no help was forthcoming, so …

Karma

Just a quick note to let you know we have moved (or rather are in the process of moving, since we haven't let the old place go yet, to make moving gradually possible - not the way 'normal' people move, I know, but it seems to be the way we do it!) We have no …