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No progress on the care home yet
I got a call from Essex Social Services today, and was about to be impressed with their speediness, but it turned out it was merely an annual ticky-box review that they're meant to do so that they continue the funding arrangement at his old care home. The lady didn't know he wasn't going back there, but seemed happy to be told, as it saved her ( Read more... ) -
In Which I Discuss My Armpits, At Length
Remember a couple of years ago I expressed my solidarity with Sarah's transition-related laser hair removal, by having my armpits lasered?
I've had a little bit of regrowth since, all of the thin and fluffy variety. In the name of Science, this is what it looks like these days when the hairs get 1.5 cm long, probably about six weeks since I shaved ( Read more... ) -
Back Into Bureaucracy
Last week there were concerns that my father had got wobbly enough (to use the non-technical term) for him to need nursing care in future rather than a residential dementia unit, and there was going to be a multidisciplinary meeting on Monday to decide this, after which someone would call me to let me know what was going on. Nobody did, but I made ( Read more... ) -
Yet another mother drama
I got an email from a stranger last week telling me that my poor problem-bedevilled mother was unable to contact me because ( Read more... ) -
Good News
My mother has said that "because it's been nine weeks and they still haven't done anything to fix my house yet and the worry over this making me so ill" she is postponing her return to the UK from March to April. Hmm, most people would treat that as a reason to come back earlier, but not my mother. But if that means that she's out of the way when ( Read more... ) -
Not a great few days
In the last ten days or so, in order of happening:
1. Someone nicked my trike. Out of our own porch. And it was expensive, and not insured, for which I am blaming myself.
2. I came down with a disgusting cold, which rather spoiled the last few days of parmonster's visit before she went back to California, as she came down with it before I did. I took a ( Read more... ) -
Halfhearted Motherburglars
After visiting the crime scene, I have concluded that my mother has been relieved of the following items ( Read more... ) -
Double DIsaster (yes, it's my mother again)
It's hard for me to get in contact with my mother in India in a hurry if I need to, because she doesn't have a phone number out there and only checks her email sporadically. However, when she wants to call us, it's a different matter. I was treated to 5 histrionic phone calls from her this Monday morning, all about how her little flooding problem ( Read more... ) -
The Decree Nisi Has Arrived, after Pointless Procedure
The next step of our marriage annulment procedure was a hearing in front of a judge. One court official told us that it was entirely rubber-stamping and we neither needed nor were expected to turn up. They were wrong; someone else told us that we both had to attend, which was a little closer to the mark. In fact Sarah, as the petitioner, had to ( Read more... )
