It’s been a tough few weeks with no sign of getting any easier, it seems that’s not what happens when “Old” becomes a actual rather than a pithy joke on a birthday card, Ha ha ha! Thanks Rochelle for keeping this going, it’s helping me and is making me write the most morose speculative posts, and for that I’m sorry. Sorry you have to read them, not sorry I wrote them. Thanks to Jenifer Pendegast for the photo, it’s a good snap, one I will fully make use of. So in the words of , well, me, for the last 4 years nearly
On My Marks…
Get Set…
GO!!!
The only decision she’s had to make in the last 40 years, is which fucking hat to wear to Ascot.
I don’t know if thats Wonderful or positively Awful.
That is the entry point for negotiations.
There’s a whole life racing forward, but the life drifting backward is so much more entertaining to look at;
“Remember Port Grimaud?”
“Maybe we could just wait until next week…”
“He’s much better today, but I don’t think he’s eating enough”
So we took an A3 pad, and thrashed out the positioning of various racial groups.
“Too many Asians”
This is where I am now…
There we are, the conundrum of drawing Venn diagrams and various aids to decision making in the world I suddenly find myself in. 100 words on Hi My name is *** and My Mum is a racist…
The Count Of North Clifton 
that’s pretty funny, not gonna lie
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That’s my life for the foreseeable
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People like that fascinate me. Totally clueless to their surroundings, only into their own little world and anyone that comes in and disrupts their little world is an outsider.
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She’s been in a bubble for 40 years, and I guess it’s been pretty nice for her, but now the skip has hit the fan, snd there is disarray
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Nice one. If you throw all the pieces up in the air, they may form a masterpiece when they fall. But I wouldn’t bet money on it
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Yes exactly, I’m seeing an unmade Tracy admin bed at the moment…
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amazing isn’t it. this isn’t one world but about 7 billion of them as we all have different views.
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Parents, who’d have them?
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Wear the red hat, of course. I love the idiom about ignorance being bliss. Well done. 🙂
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From day to day, you never know where things will go.. I’m sorry you are going through this. I’m afraid my day is soon. Good story of fact. Thank you.
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Thank you, what do you mean your story is soon! Folks getting old?
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Dealing with an elderly aunt who is starting to have some memory issues and her “not so nice” side has come to the surface recently… yeha!
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Old age hits us twice (if we’re lucky) – once in our experience of our parents and once in our own right. I wonder how our children will see us when the second round comes.
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That’s a tough situation you describe. I’m 100% in sympathy with your question, ‘I don’t know if thats Wonderful or positively Awful.’
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Dear Shrawley,
Why can’t we just all get along? A question that seemingly has no answer. Writing your anger into a story is therapeutic. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I know the situation with elderly, now deceased, relatives, too. Awful, not wonderful is what I think.
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Well that is on point..she’s not the only one I see, when I look at the British papers and see the same phrased used to describe cricket team mates. Bravo. Another step back for civilisation…
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I know Britain is rotten to the core right now
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Your story reminded me of how much my circles expanded when I started working as a therapist. All kinds of people I probably would not have met any other way, and they enriched my life.
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