Construction by Debbie Bennett
In an effort to forget that April 2022 ever existed, I’m going to try to find something upbeat and positive to fill my blank screen today. Last month was stressful, dealing with elderly parents, emergency hospitalisations and Alzheimer's. I’d like to thank our very own Julia Jones, without whose help and advice on John’s Campaign , I’d never have had the knowledge and mental fortitude to stand-up to NHS bureaucracy, and my dad would have been left alone in hospital for over a week with no visitors … Julia – you have my eternal gratitude. Moving onwards to May and I sit here looking out of my dining room window to a large blank space where the conservatory used to be ... Well I say conservatory - it was more of a lean-to with a polycarbonate roof, blown double-glazed windows and single-skin leaky, rotten wood base panels. A room that was impossible to heat in winter as it lost heat faster than it warmed up! So we took it down last week. Or rather Andy did. Then - while we had the ...