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2022 was not one of my better years. I think I achieved very little in the grand scheme of things and certainly no writing of any importance at all. My dad's health declined rapidly - we moved through in-home carers, hospital and eventually full-time residential dementia care within the space of a few months from spring to summer; meanwhile my mum's planned sale of their bungalow and moving into a sheltered-housing flat continued and she moved in alone in September. It fell to Andy and I to do a lot of the legwork - interviewing home carers, then finding and inspecting care homes, helping mum to pack and move and all the inevitable bits of DIY that follow any house move. I'm also the proud owner/renter of a secure storage unit for all the stuff of mine and my brother's that used to live in mum & dad's loft space! Since Keith is in Australia and my own loft has a small and awkward hatch, a rental unit seemed like the best option. So I'm now visiting my dad ev...

Covid hair! I had a really good idea for a blog post the other day. Can I remember what it was? Not a chance. I swear my brain is fried these days – whether with the current situation, age, hormones or quite possibly a combination of all three. So, I’m sitting here with greyer hair than I’ve ever had (do I need to bother dying it? I’m curious to see how grey I actually am as I’ve not gone  natural  for quite a few years …) and an absolute desperate burning need to visit the dental hygienist before all my expensive bridgework falls apart completely through lack of maintenance. Interesting times, are they not? Is anybody watching  The Last Kingdom   on Netflix? We finished season 4 last week and I can’t help drawing parallels to  Game of Thrones . I mean our Uhtred was quite clearly Jon Snow in a former life - same dress style, same strategist. He even looks the same! And Sansa has morphed into Aethelflaed, with Cersei becoming Aelswith. I’m loving it, bu...