I am glad you had a good day yesterday as well. Yes it is hard to believe your Em will soon be in her final year. Hardly seems a minute since she started.
Does she have any idea what she wants to do afterwards? I know jobs for new graduates are not all that plentiful either these days. BUt I guess she has time to decide yet.
Azzi has gone off to footie and I will be catching up on my clicks and watching rubbish programmes that are usually banned. Eastenders had Stacey going manic in it last night. She was throwing stuff through windows, throwing herself at all the men and throwing money away like water. They must have read up all the common symptoms and stuck them all in.Her Mum who has bipolar and has always been meek and mild confronts her and of course Stacey says that there is nothing wrong with her. But obviously there is. Not least the way 'soaps' tackle the 'issue of mental illness' on a regular basis and come up with a load of stereotypes. It's all so black and white to them.
Anyway hope you have another good day today and will catch up again soon.
Goodday!
John Cooper Clarke is alive & kickin’! There’s activity on his Myspace page! Comments like;
Cheers for the friend acceptance
I still dig your groovy parlance
And before you voice a painful grievance
I'll finish with a discord cadence
Jill and me sit, her controlling the world via her web, me reviewing everything on freeview & Catch-up TV & reading the Times. Hours go by. I know Jill was unhappy at my regime of staying in if its cold but we’re both in the same boat now. A few weeks back, we decided it was good enough weather to have a pub-lunch, we got togged up, stepped out, got less than 10 meters & thought better of it! I miss being able to go where I want but not enough to bother me. It’s a matter of making the most of what we got. -What we can do rather than wasted worry about what we can’t. I’m happy.
I get irritate when I’ve got one voice in an ear’ole via the phone & another message bombards me bits searchin’ out a spare lug’ole to enter. As if this isn’t silly enough, it invariably happens when there’s an ‘Aga-Doo’ tune blazing out of the goggle box!
(An ‘Aga-Doo’ song has recently been defined as a ‘Brainworm’! –If you’ve got a song stuck in your bonce it’s a Brainworm! Aga-Doo is possibly the worse!)
I’m off, albeit unwashed, to Liam’s for footie! Sandra is collecting me any mo now! So I’ll luv yer & leave yer til lata!
I’m always doing silly lines in me ‘ead, but nothing worth writing. I get blobs of time where ev’rything gets me tempted but after the first line or two, nothing! I think my routine life may have something to do with it, but I’m hardly complaining cos I’ve never been so stably happy!
Sometimes its good just to meet & spend time together passing time. I can remember many hours spent with dad reading the papers, two big pots of tea & not a word for hours! –Altho’ when there was a story worthy of comment we more than made up for it!
These times are clearer memories than the big occasions.
I saw Benjamin Zephaniah on telly lunchtime, he’s s’posed to be a ‘Dub poet’. I’m not sure what that means but I like his stuff. Another brilliant one is John Cooper Clarke…
Happy days...
Its nice to be pampered, -just a bit! And we all need a medal for surviving in these times!
I only get to see my kids when its football or they want something (-How Much?£!?$!)
No, that’s not really true, -most of the time! Shaun & Sandra are each in & out several times thro’ the week & Sandra regularly gets our Sunday papers & a few odds like cat bikkies or fag papers etc. as a way of paying a loan back.
I took loads of snaps to get these few good ones! –The only bonus of digital! A Council yard isn’t the most inspiring of settings tho’. After all, once you’ve seen one half-acre of Marigolds…
I wasn’t cold at all while we were out, but once back & relaxed Jill unusually decided to plant some immediately & thus the back door was open just long enough to bring the chills.
Shaun said he didn’t understand poetry! I was shocked! “What about songs, song lyrics”? I asked. To which I was treated to an animalistic “Grunt”! I don’t expect him to appreciate the finer points of the Iambic Pentameters so lovingly gushed out by Shakespeare et al, but…
I used to cheat at school by reworking other poems.
I did;
“Dear reader, sit down now, this won’t take a while to explain
The story so far, so far as I know, is one that’ll cause you no pain
It is really Bob Dylan’s ‘To Ramona’, a track from his 1964 album “Another Side of Bob Dylan”
“Ramona come closer, shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your sadness will pass and your senses will rise…
I know it’s cheating, but all poetry follows patterns, the rhythm of one limerick or sonnet is the same as the next. I was only doing what the poets do!
One Euro song I like, & if I think of Jill's & my past it was totally appropriate!
I was waiting for you to show up on the caf yesterday so we could scoff some of this
glitter-graphics.com
but you didn't show up! But never mind it is still good for today and will go well with your Chinese honestly!
Glad you had a good birthday day anyway and got some support with your Dad as well which you really need. And some good pressies. And today you are seeing Em which always seems to cheer you up so that is great.
I am up late again and feel quite stressed out with quite a long to do list and I don't know where to start so keep putting it all off. Then I get even more stressed for not having got anything on the to do list done! But I have at least got your card on its way to being sent off by Shaun. He said he would post it tomorrow along with some trousers that don't fit that are being returned. Really annoying but this company don't have a returns service like my catalogue do and I would have been much more wary about ordering if I'd known. The trousers are much too big. It will probably cost about £7 postage to send them back which is a waste.
Anyway better stop whingeing about all that. Yes you need to get the advocacy people to take the burden away from you over your Dad's situation and i hope they come up with the goods. I remember before your Dad was ill that Christmas that you seemed to have a good relationship and he would take you out for lunch and on holiday and stuff. I hope things can get back to being like that again or at least better than they are for you now.
I put a discussion up in the Salesrooms group asking members to list stuff they sell for $10 so I don't know whether you want to list your cards? I don't know what international postage rates are but you could check other people from the Uk selling on Etsy and see how much they charge. Another thing is you said you need to do a website for selling your cards but you can always use your page here until you can get one. I suppose you still need to get the paypal arrangements sorted out? I guess most people who are buying online expect to be able to pay using paypal or a service like that rather than by cheque. In fact I read that cheques are really going out of fashion these days. Anyway do put up as much as you like about your cards for sale on here and in any blogs you want to write to promote them.
Anyway I'd better go as it is getting on for 3 and I need to at least start if not finish the email I have to write to the CPN who said he would help support my case. I hope you are having a good night and will catch up tomorrow.
I’d watch any Tarrantino film, I just enjoy a good movie! Jill is a bit sensitive tho’, so I gotta try to keep it sugary.
Long ago, I took Shaun to see his then fav, I think it was called “Just Dennis” after the telly version. I remember we sat down, next thing, Shaun waking me with complaints of snoring when it was time to go!
I narrowly got out of having to put up with an evening of screamin’ tweenies worshipping Kylie’n’Jason, my darling daughter Mandy’s ‘thing’.
Oh, by the way, Happy Birthday for whenever it is!
I take it you mean the Will smith version of ‘pursuit’, its surprisingly good. –Just Jill’s sort of thing. Not sure about ‘Monsters’ tho’…
I was told the gov’t insists the ‘Benefits’ office is deliberately under-staffed & all records are kept on paperwork to keep the system slow! I dread the thought of them using computers, Christ knows who’d get whose payments & its any one’s guess as to where the data would end up!
Courtesy of jumble sales & neighbors I had Lonnie, Bill Haley, Elvis & Adam Faith on the old bakelite 78s! I can’t begin to tell you what our dad thought of hearing the same few good songs over & over early on a Sunday morning!
I'll bet you didn't know Adam faith started the BBC2 Lunch time program; "Working Lunch" - Not many peop...
That is really wrong for a support worker to be going around telling your Dad advocacy is rubbish and making him sign forms that he agrees with the care he is getting. I are surely not allowed to do that with vulnerable people like him who most need an advocate standing up for them and the services they get. But if your Dad complains to you and then won't tell them the problems he has then he is putting you in a very bad situation. Sounds like he plays you up Mandy. I have thought this before. The way he carries on it is almost like he is being a naughty child expecting you to be his Mummy. Really annoying in someone supposed to be your Dad and look out for you. I hope this new advocate person you are getting will be able to cut out all this burden for you.
I have got out a card to send you for your Birfday but don't know when it will arrive as I have to depend on someone else doing the posting. When we went in the car with Shaun last weekend there was a letter waiting to be posted in the glove compartment and it had been there some time! hope it won't be too long anyway.
Anyway hope you have a good day and enjoy yourself.
Tarrantino is off limits here, too violent! I can’t be ar*ed with ‘Rambo’ & ‘Kung Fu’ types of movies., I did enjoy Pulp Fiction!
One of the few guarantees in life is “Nobody ever gets what they want from ‘Service Providers’! My sleepless nights are filled with torment & worry, am I a ‘stakeholder’ or a ‘client’?
Some weeks I’d see five movies if Mum was in the mood. Early two-reelers, cowboys or gangsters & a serial story on Saturdays, then James Mason Etc doing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar & Betty Davis poisoning ev’rybody on set! –I got a damn sight better education than the state version!
My grandchild Lewis was completely consumed by “Thomas the Bleedin’ Tank”! Now it’s Blu-tak hence his nik-name! I think the Thomas engines are kept in deepest Wales, -Not far enough…
This is one of the few real & talented UK pre-Beatle performers:
As always there's the usual naff stuff on t'box, a quiz, 'variety' -Cowell-poo!', a good film later on 4, "Being John Malkevich". On beeb2 there's 'Have I got a bit more news with Jack Dee followed by Bill Baileyand the 'remarkable' orchestra!
Haven't you got virgin? If so you can see jools again on BBCi or Freeview.
Years back when we used to go to Saturday pictures at the ABC cinema, they showed a cartoon version of the Banana Boat Song. I finally found it!
"Sing along now boys & girls..."
Oh so its your birthday on Thursday. We'll have to have some cake on the caf! And I remember you like going to see the elephants at the zoo so that should be good for you. Also getting away to the seaside at the end of the month. And to be honest anything that can get you breaks from all this keep worrying over your Dad is a good idea.
The CPN from mental health services who I saw last year also rang me up and said he will help me in my battle to get help! I have to email him the details. It just all seems so complicated to get anything from the system though. You'd think having a serious mental health condition plus limited mobility from serious bad breathing would be enough not to have to fight every step of the way but unless you do you get no help at all. Even now I feel like I'll go through all this fuss and still get nothing.That is the way they want it because it saves them their budget but it feels like noone in services cares or at least they only care about saving money and not providing any services people need.
Anyway it seems like a nice day outside and I am thinking maybe a bit in the garden would be nice before the sun goes over the fence.
I read your blog and sorry about your reaction to your Dad's situation. I was reading it and when you said you lost it I was hoping you had shouted at them all but no. I know it is hard but I wish it wouldn't get to you so bad.
Glad that your time with Skippy went better. And I hope you are feeling better in general after that ordeal.
Azzi must be tired because he has fallen asleep in Question Time which he always watches every week. Dickens doesn't like him falling asleep and keeps going up to him and miaowing in his face. I told Dickens to stop but he looks sulky!
I have been offered a proper assessment by another disability team after my complaint to social services over not getting any help. And she said I can have an advocate at the meeting. Don't know when it will happen though but it is better than being told there is to be no help at all.
Hope you feel better from the migranes and new medication soon. Just try not to worry and try not to stay so distressed. And I have a couple of tickets for the 100 mill lottery on Friday so we can start running our own people caring services then!
Yeah, we can all do with stepping back from our own 'front lines' from time to time. I only wish Liam would do it! He's a silent worry warrior. If he could accept things as they are & plan from now, instead of thinking too much he'd be able to relax.
Kid Creole are definitely a party band! -This always wakes 'em up!
That track is from their ‘White’ album. –Another masterpiece!
Speaking of which…
Didn’t ManU do well! Arsenal couldn’t get started! By the 60th minute, and with 5 goals required, the home fan’s stand was almost empty! –Glorious!
We’ve got one more league meeting with them an’ I’ve a feeling it’ll be a ‘rough’ one!
Last time I was with a group of ex-work mates, conversations were about ‘What’s on’, ‘Have you seen…’ & ‘I’ve got…’ stuff. Neil has a computer-controlled telescope & a mum who’s fading fast, Norman has new mixing decks, Paul has…
It’s all a bit too ‘Mines bigger than yours’ for me.
Who is Dr J? Or am I missing something obvious?
Goats, like dogs, are good ‘rubbish bins’. Dickens has a go at eating most things, chocolate, cardboard, armpit hair, slo-worms…
There’s been a constant protest against that ‘weapons’ factory, but there were also several protests even when it was the Sunblest bakery! –people just need to ‘protest’ & there’s more than enough crapola in this town! Currently the ruling tory mob have a majority of one, & that one is a very busy bod who’s rarely available so council business & decisions are on hold. Skidrow-on-sea is so corrupt we’ve made it back into Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs column!
There was a Bill Nighy film t’other week on late telly which similarly told the story from each of three bloke’s experiences. Trouble is; I can’t see it’s title on his wiki page filmography!
My habit of waking at 4am has drifted to nearer 5.30am. Dawn breaking, the cat invariably on the scrounge for a handful of his favorite chicken bickies, so I’m more than awake & get a dose of the fidgets & so find its near impossible to get back to kip!
Thanks for the Paul. I am playing it now on Internet Explorer and writing this on Firefox. Sounds like a good song which I havn't heard before as well.
That Virgin Bill of £115 does that include your TV Broadband Phone and all your phone calls? We have a virgin package for all three and with phone calls it works out around £70 a month but it also gives free phone calls to everything except mobiles and 0845 type numbers.
It is worth ringing Virgin and getting their 'I am thinking of leaving' option and then complaining you can get a better deal elsewhere etc. Then they usually give you a better deal. That's what I do anyway.
Also look on the their website and see what deals they are offering new customers and if you see a good one ask for that.
I was getting really fed up with them for bad broadband speed and stuff a while ago and we thought of changing to Sky but then you also have to change to a BT phone so it seemed too much hassle. I don't know much about Talk Talk so don't know if they would be better for you.
Do you want me to send you the last email I sent you again? I didn't quite understand what you ment?
I am quite liking Twitter but it does waste time reading all the Tweets. And a lot are pretty dull. But they are all short and easy to read through and you do get stuff you wouldn't hear about otherwise. Like Azzi read out from the paper that the Bees are dying. And that Einstein wrote if Bees die out the human race only has 4 years to live. So I am now following the Help Save Bees man on Twitter.
Anyway thanks again for the Paul Weller and I will try to dig out a video of your liking soon.
Good morrow kind maid,
(-Mayday (Anti-xmas) type of comment)
That clip is more relevant these days when, altho’ we employ buckets of expensive, elaborate communication devices, we don’t read the message! Gov’ts, councils, town-planners, landlords, all spouting endless streams of noise while hearing nothing!
Oh! And of course its hilarious! Bob Todd exudes the essence of playground impishness!
Most blokes don’t have ‘mates’, once out of regular employment or similar we’ve got to contrive reasons to meet each other. We slip into the ‘Hatches, Matches & Dispatches’ slot ‘til it’s our turn for the latter!
I’ve got Pete, who pops round regularly; we met at my last employment. -Regular bursts of info on his demented workmates, the latest in technology, politics s*x etc. Whatever’s current. Also, it helps to be the ‘Half-full’ type, optimism keeps me smiling! That, and being interested in so much, always wishing to learn stuff. It also stops me thinking ‘old’!
I watched the two years the bloke downstairs at Golf Drive, Brian took to die. It was obvious he wasn’t going to help himself in any way, rapidly passing the ‘dog-ends, & begging’ stage then into the final housebound endgame. The bloke who owned the biggest shop in Brighton called several times wanting his gardening skills, offering good money. Across the road, Ron kept himself busy, even going to church to give him something to do! I said he was going for the ladies, which, of course he couldn’t deny!
Scrabble is always an excuse for fun chats!
There’s an Anti-war demo going on in town but we’d both need electric buggys! Also from early morning the traffic has been constantly up to ‘rush-hour’ levels! Even if we tried, we’d only have time to get to the end of the road…
Just watched a soppy film ; “Holes” starring Sigorny Weaver, John Voygt & a couple of kids! Ertha Kitt did a cameo as a pig farmer! Now its Eddie Murphy & ghosts. Probably drop off…
Zzzzz….
Well I've just spoken to Richard on the phone He has another 3 months wait but seems more cheerful about what will happen. Things are moving in the direction he wants apparently and he was thrilled to get a card from you as well.
We went out to a country pub and had some yummy food.It was nice sitting in the sun but also cold as soon as there was a breeze. Still only the beginning of May so can't expect it to be really hot. It was nice to get out anyway.
I've put up a challenge to design side pictures for the Main page. I recently put up pics by Aileen, Kate and now Paola and they have looked good so I hope we get more. Maybe you fancy having a go yourself?
I wrote an online application to the direct payments people yesterday so will see what comes of that. I had a completely fobbing off letter from social care services about the stair lift. In fact the letter didn't even mention a stair lift. How is that for avoiding the subject! Anyway I will just carry on doing what I can to complain and probably write to the director of social services and the counsellors before long as well!
Apart from that can't really remember what I have seen on TV. Not much worth remembering anyway. Although the Tv is on a lot most of it tends to go on over my head as I am concentrating on other things. Oh I did see some of Have I got News for You which was good.
Hope you have had a good day and will have a good evening tonight.
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I am glad you had a good day yesterday as well. Yes it is hard to believe your Em will soon be in her final year. Hardly seems a minute since she started.
Does she have any idea what she wants to do afterwards? I know jobs for new graduates are not all that plentiful either these days. BUt I guess she has time to decide yet.
Azzi has gone off to footie and I will be catching up on my clicks and watching rubbish programmes that are usually banned. Eastenders had Stacey going manic in it last night. She was throwing stuff through windows, throwing herself at all the men and throwing money away like water. They must have read up all the common symptoms and stuck them all in.Her Mum who has bipolar and has always been meek and mild confronts her and of course Stacey says that there is nothing wrong with her. But obviously there is. Not least the way 'soaps' tackle the 'issue of mental illness' on a regular basis and come up with a load of stereotypes. It's all so black and white to them.
Anyway hope you have another good day today and will catch up again soon.
Bye for Now
Jill
John Cooper Clarke is alive & kickin’! There’s activity on his Myspace page! Comments like;
Cheers for the friend acceptance
I still dig your groovy parlance
And before you voice a painful grievance
I'll finish with a discord cadence
Jill and me sit, her controlling the world via her web, me reviewing everything on freeview & Catch-up TV & reading the Times. Hours go by. I know Jill was unhappy at my regime of staying in if its cold but we’re both in the same boat now. A few weeks back, we decided it was good enough weather to have a pub-lunch, we got togged up, stepped out, got less than 10 meters & thought better of it! I miss being able to go where I want but not enough to bother me. It’s a matter of making the most of what we got. -What we can do rather than wasted worry about what we can’t. I’m happy.
I get irritate when I’ve got one voice in an ear’ole via the phone & another message bombards me bits searchin’ out a spare lug’ole to enter. As if this isn’t silly enough, it invariably happens when there’s an ‘Aga-Doo’ tune blazing out of the goggle box!
(An ‘Aga-Doo’ song has recently been defined as a ‘Brainworm’! –If you’ve got a song stuck in your bonce it’s a Brainworm! Aga-Doo is possibly the worse!)
I’m off, albeit unwashed, to Liam’s for footie! Sandra is collecting me any mo now! So I’ll luv yer & leave yer til lata!
Sunny Afternoon & this are truely great pop!
I’m always doing silly lines in me ‘ead, but nothing worth writing. I get blobs of time where ev’rything gets me tempted but after the first line or two, nothing! I think my routine life may have something to do with it, but I’m hardly complaining cos I’ve never been so stably happy!
Sometimes its good just to meet & spend time together passing time. I can remember many hours spent with dad reading the papers, two big pots of tea & not a word for hours! –Altho’ when there was a story worthy of comment we more than made up for it!
These times are clearer memories than the big occasions.
I saw Benjamin Zephaniah on telly lunchtime, he’s s’posed to be a ‘Dub poet’. I’m not sure what that means but I like his stuff. Another brilliant one is John Cooper Clarke…
Happy days...
glitter-graphics.com
To Mandy...
glitter-graphics.com
Its nice to be pampered, -just a bit! And we all need a medal for surviving in these times!
I only get to see my kids when its football or they want something (-How Much?£!?$!)
No, that’s not really true, -most of the time! Shaun & Sandra are each in & out several times thro’ the week & Sandra regularly gets our Sunday papers & a few odds like cat bikkies or fag papers etc. as a way of paying a loan back.
I took loads of snaps to get these few good ones! –The only bonus of digital! A Council yard isn’t the most inspiring of settings tho’. After all, once you’ve seen one half-acre of Marigolds…
I wasn’t cold at all while we were out, but once back & relaxed Jill unusually decided to plant some immediately & thus the back door was open just long enough to bring the chills.
Shaun said he didn’t understand poetry! I was shocked! “What about songs, song lyrics”? I asked. To which I was treated to an animalistic “Grunt”! I don’t expect him to appreciate the finer points of the Iambic Pentameters so lovingly gushed out by Shakespeare et al, but…
I used to cheat at school by reworking other poems.
I did;
“Dear reader, sit down now, this won’t take a while to explain
The story so far, so far as I know, is one that’ll cause you no pain
It is really Bob Dylan’s ‘To Ramona’, a track from his 1964 album “Another Side of Bob Dylan”
“Ramona come closer, shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your sadness will pass and your senses will rise…
I know it’s cheating, but all poetry follows patterns, the rhythm of one limerick or sonnet is the same as the next. I was only doing what the poets do!
One Euro song I like, & if I think of Jill's & my past it was totally appropriate!
But this is one of the few good ones;
I was waiting for you to show up on the caf yesterday so we could scoff some of this
glitter-graphics.com
but you didn't show up! But never mind it is still good for today and will go well with your Chinese honestly!
Glad you had a good birthday day anyway and got some support with your Dad as well which you really need. And some good pressies. And today you are seeing Em which always seems to cheer you up so that is great.
So a very Happy Birthday for yesterday from me.
Bye for Now
Jill
I am up late again and feel quite stressed out with quite a long to do list and I don't know where to start so keep putting it all off. Then I get even more stressed for not having got anything on the to do list done! But I have at least got your card on its way to being sent off by Shaun. He said he would post it tomorrow along with some trousers that don't fit that are being returned. Really annoying but this company don't have a returns service like my catalogue do and I would have been much more wary about ordering if I'd known. The trousers are much too big. It will probably cost about £7 postage to send them back which is a waste.
Anyway better stop whingeing about all that. Yes you need to get the advocacy people to take the burden away from you over your Dad's situation and i hope they come up with the goods. I remember before your Dad was ill that Christmas that you seemed to have a good relationship and he would take you out for lunch and on holiday and stuff. I hope things can get back to being like that again or at least better than they are for you now.
I put a discussion up in the Salesrooms group asking members to list stuff they sell for $10 so I don't know whether you want to list your cards? I don't know what international postage rates are but you could check other people from the Uk selling on Etsy and see how much they charge. Another thing is you said you need to do a website for selling your cards but you can always use your page here until you can get one. I suppose you still need to get the paypal arrangements sorted out? I guess most people who are buying online expect to be able to pay using paypal or a service like that rather than by cheque. In fact I read that cheques are really going out of fashion these days. Anyway do put up as much as you like about your cards for sale on here and in any blogs you want to write to promote them.
Anyway I'd better go as it is getting on for 3 and I need to at least start if not finish the email I have to write to the CPN who said he would help support my case. I hope you are having a good night and will catch up tomorrow.
Bye for Now
Jill
Long ago, I took Shaun to see his then fav, I think it was called “Just Dennis” after the telly version. I remember we sat down, next thing, Shaun waking me with complaints of snoring when it was time to go!
I narrowly got out of having to put up with an evening of screamin’ tweenies worshipping Kylie’n’Jason, my darling daughter Mandy’s ‘thing’.
Oh, by the way, Happy Birthday for whenever it is!
I take it you mean the Will smith version of ‘pursuit’, its surprisingly good. –Just Jill’s sort of thing. Not sure about ‘Monsters’ tho’…
I was told the gov’t insists the ‘Benefits’ office is deliberately under-staffed & all records are kept on paperwork to keep the system slow! I dread the thought of them using computers, Christ knows who’d get whose payments & its any one’s guess as to where the data would end up!
Courtesy of jumble sales & neighbors I had Lonnie, Bill Haley, Elvis & Adam Faith on the old bakelite 78s! I can’t begin to tell you what our dad thought of hearing the same few good songs over & over early on a Sunday morning!
I'll bet you didn't know Adam faith started the BBC2 Lunch time program; "Working Lunch" - Not many peop...
That is really wrong for a support worker to be going around telling your Dad advocacy is rubbish and making him sign forms that he agrees with the care he is getting. I are surely not allowed to do that with vulnerable people like him who most need an advocate standing up for them and the services they get. But if your Dad complains to you and then won't tell them the problems he has then he is putting you in a very bad situation. Sounds like he plays you up Mandy. I have thought this before. The way he carries on it is almost like he is being a naughty child expecting you to be his Mummy. Really annoying in someone supposed to be your Dad and look out for you. I hope this new advocate person you are getting will be able to cut out all this burden for you.
I have got out a card to send you for your Birfday but don't know when it will arrive as I have to depend on someone else doing the posting. When we went in the car with Shaun last weekend there was a letter waiting to be posted in the glove compartment and it had been there some time! hope it won't be too long anyway.
Anyway hope you have a good day and enjoy yourself.
Bye for Now
Jill
One of the few guarantees in life is “Nobody ever gets what they want from ‘Service Providers’! My sleepless nights are filled with torment & worry, am I a ‘stakeholder’ or a ‘client’?
Some weeks I’d see five movies if Mum was in the mood. Early two-reelers, cowboys or gangsters & a serial story on Saturdays, then James Mason Etc doing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar & Betty Davis poisoning ev’rybody on set! –I got a damn sight better education than the state version!
My grandchild Lewis was completely consumed by “Thomas the Bleedin’ Tank”! Now it’s Blu-tak hence his nik-name! I think the Thomas engines are kept in deepest Wales, -Not far enough…
This is one of the few real & talented UK pre-Beatle performers:
Haven't you got virgin? If so you can see jools again on BBCi or Freeview.
Years back when we used to go to Saturday pictures at the ABC cinema, they showed a cartoon version of the Banana Boat Song. I finally found it!
"Sing along now boys & girls..."
Oh so its your birthday on Thursday. We'll have to have some cake on the caf! And I remember you like going to see the elephants at the zoo so that should be good for you. Also getting away to the seaside at the end of the month. And to be honest anything that can get you breaks from all this keep worrying over your Dad is a good idea.
The CPN from mental health services who I saw last year also rang me up and said he will help me in my battle to get help! I have to email him the details. It just all seems so complicated to get anything from the system though. You'd think having a serious mental health condition plus limited mobility from serious bad breathing would be enough not to have to fight every step of the way but unless you do you get no help at all. Even now I feel like I'll go through all this fuss and still get nothing.That is the way they want it because it saves them their budget but it feels like noone in services cares or at least they only care about saving money and not providing any services people need.
Anyway it seems like a nice day outside and I am thinking maybe a bit in the garden would be nice before the sun goes over the fence.
Bye for Now
Jill
I read your blog and sorry about your reaction to your Dad's situation. I was reading it and when you said you lost it I was hoping you had shouted at them all but no. I know it is hard but I wish it wouldn't get to you so bad.
Glad that your time with Skippy went better. And I hope you are feeling better in general after that ordeal.
Azzi must be tired because he has fallen asleep in Question Time which he always watches every week. Dickens doesn't like him falling asleep and keeps going up to him and miaowing in his face. I told Dickens to stop but he looks sulky!
I have been offered a proper assessment by another disability team after my complaint to social services over not getting any help. And she said I can have an advocate at the meeting. Don't know when it will happen though but it is better than being told there is to be no help at all.
Hope you feel better from the migranes and new medication soon. Just try not to worry and try not to stay so distressed. And I have a couple of tickets for the 100 mill lottery on Friday so we can start running our own people caring services then!
Take care
Jill
Kid Creole are definitely a party band! -This always wakes 'em up!
thank you for your comments and thoughts. I am honored to count you as my online friend. Thank you for reaching out your hand in friendship.
Regina
That track is from their ‘White’ album. –Another masterpiece!
Speaking of which…
Didn’t ManU do well! Arsenal couldn’t get started! By the 60th minute, and with 5 goals required, the home fan’s stand was almost empty! –Glorious!
We’ve got one more league meeting with them an’ I’ve a feeling it’ll be a ‘rough’ one!
Last time I was with a group of ex-work mates, conversations were about ‘What’s on’, ‘Have you seen…’ & ‘I’ve got…’ stuff. Neil has a computer-controlled telescope & a mum who’s fading fast, Norman has new mixing decks, Paul has…
It’s all a bit too ‘Mines bigger than yours’ for me.
Who is Dr J? Or am I missing something obvious?
Goats, like dogs, are good ‘rubbish bins’. Dickens has a go at eating most things, chocolate, cardboard, armpit hair, slo-worms…
There’s been a constant protest against that ‘weapons’ factory, but there were also several protests even when it was the Sunblest bakery! –people just need to ‘protest’ & there’s more than enough crapola in this town! Currently the ruling tory mob have a majority of one, & that one is a very busy bod who’s rarely available so council business & decisions are on hold. Skidrow-on-sea is so corrupt we’ve made it back into Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs column!
There was a Bill Nighy film t’other week on late telly which similarly told the story from each of three bloke’s experiences. Trouble is; I can’t see it’s title on his wiki page filmography!
My habit of waking at 4am has drifted to nearer 5.30am. Dawn breaking, the cat invariably on the scrounge for a handful of his favorite chicken bickies, so I’m more than awake & get a dose of the fidgets & so find its near impossible to get back to kip!
This is just cos I like it...
The Robbie williams version is almost as good!
Thanks for the Paul. I am playing it now on Internet Explorer and writing this on Firefox. Sounds like a good song which I havn't heard before as well.
That Virgin Bill of £115 does that include your TV Broadband Phone and all your phone calls? We have a virgin package for all three and with phone calls it works out around £70 a month but it also gives free phone calls to everything except mobiles and 0845 type numbers.
It is worth ringing Virgin and getting their 'I am thinking of leaving' option and then complaining you can get a better deal elsewhere etc. Then they usually give you a better deal. That's what I do anyway.
Also look on the their website and see what deals they are offering new customers and if you see a good one ask for that.
I was getting really fed up with them for bad broadband speed and stuff a while ago and we thought of changing to Sky but then you also have to change to a BT phone so it seemed too much hassle. I don't know much about Talk Talk so don't know if they would be better for you.
Do you want me to send you the last email I sent you again? I didn't quite understand what you ment?
I am quite liking Twitter but it does waste time reading all the Tweets. And a lot are pretty dull. But they are all short and easy to read through and you do get stuff you wouldn't hear about otherwise. Like Azzi read out from the paper that the Bees are dying. And that Einstein wrote if Bees die out the human race only has 4 years to live. So I am now following the Help Save Bees man on Twitter.
Anyway thanks again for the Paul Weller and I will try to dig out a video of your liking soon.
Bye for Now
Jill
(-Mayday (Anti-xmas) type of comment)
That clip is more relevant these days when, altho’ we employ buckets of expensive, elaborate communication devices, we don’t read the message! Gov’ts, councils, town-planners, landlords, all spouting endless streams of noise while hearing nothing!
Oh! And of course its hilarious! Bob Todd exudes the essence of playground impishness!
Most blokes don’t have ‘mates’, once out of regular employment or similar we’ve got to contrive reasons to meet each other. We slip into the ‘Hatches, Matches & Dispatches’ slot ‘til it’s our turn for the latter!
I’ve got Pete, who pops round regularly; we met at my last employment. -Regular bursts of info on his demented workmates, the latest in technology, politics s*x etc. Whatever’s current. Also, it helps to be the ‘Half-full’ type, optimism keeps me smiling! That, and being interested in so much, always wishing to learn stuff. It also stops me thinking ‘old’!
I watched the two years the bloke downstairs at Golf Drive, Brian took to die. It was obvious he wasn’t going to help himself in any way, rapidly passing the ‘dog-ends, & begging’ stage then into the final housebound endgame. The bloke who owned the biggest shop in Brighton called several times wanting his gardening skills, offering good money. Across the road, Ron kept himself busy, even going to church to give him something to do! I said he was going for the ladies, which, of course he couldn’t deny!
Scrabble is always an excuse for fun chats!
There’s an Anti-war demo going on in town but we’d both need electric buggys! Also from early morning the traffic has been constantly up to ‘rush-hour’ levels! Even if we tried, we’d only have time to get to the end of the road…
Just watched a soppy film ; “Holes” starring Sigorny Weaver, John Voygt & a couple of kids! Ertha Kitt did a cameo as a pig farmer! Now its Eddie Murphy & ghosts. Probably drop off…
Zzzzz….
Well I've just spoken to Richard on the phone He has another 3 months wait but seems more cheerful about what will happen. Things are moving in the direction he wants apparently and he was thrilled to get a card from you as well.
We went out to a country pub and had some yummy food.It was nice sitting in the sun but also cold as soon as there was a breeze. Still only the beginning of May so can't expect it to be really hot. It was nice to get out anyway.
I've put up a challenge to design side pictures for the Main page. I recently put up pics by Aileen, Kate and now Paola and they have looked good so I hope we get more. Maybe you fancy having a go yourself?
I wrote an online application to the direct payments people yesterday so will see what comes of that. I had a completely fobbing off letter from social care services about the stair lift. In fact the letter didn't even mention a stair lift. How is that for avoiding the subject! Anyway I will just carry on doing what I can to complain and probably write to the director of social services and the counsellors before long as well!
Apart from that can't really remember what I have seen on TV. Not much worth remembering anyway. Although the Tv is on a lot most of it tends to go on over my head as I am concentrating on other things. Oh I did see some of Have I got News for You which was good.
Hope you have had a good day and will have a good evening tonight.
Bye for Now
Jill
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