This, my 2514th narrative, will be the last blog I write for a while. My motivation to write these 500+ … More
Category: depression
Anger & Marmite
I initiate this revue litteraire perched amongst lunchtime patrons of a shopping centre coffee shop. Adjacent to me in this … More
Spiritual Signs?
Preferring to use established data as a source when making decisions/judgements, I’m a fella who ordinarily embraces scientific reasoning above … More
Canine Therapy
In an highly emotive and sad week, they were the first tears of joy I’d witnessed for a while. The … More
A New Start
Day four of middle-aged orphanhood following my mother’s passing on Sunday. The matriarch leaving this vale of tears to join … More
Silence Isn’t Always Golden
Aside from a sporadic sob emanating from daughter Rachel in the front passenger seat of my car, yesterday’s 20 minute … More
Thoughts From The Care Home
As I begin this chronicle I’ve just returned into my mothers care home room after vacating it while nurses undertook … More
I Spy
“I spy with my little eye; something beginning with B.” A challenge presented by my mum from her hospital bed … More
Still Centre Stage
Around midday yesterday the opening verse of Jimmy Osmond’s 1972 hit ‘Long Haired Lover From Liverpool’ rang out in a … More