Category Archives: looking after Mum
A letter to Mummy W
Dear Mummy W, You won’t be able to read this. I don’t know when you stopped being able to read but I know when you look at words now you guess them based on context like a small child. And … Continue reading
The pondering Tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: The biggest shop we ever did together. Too much to do a trolley check which made mum happy. She said I was allowed to drop the blue tokens on the donation bin at the end as a … Continue reading
The chaotic cooking Tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: Mostly successful, although someone with a very full trolley beat us to the ‘nice’ cashier so we ended up with a man. Luckily Mum approved of him. Celebratory ‘we did the shopping’ cake choice: Belgium bun (did … Continue reading
The art of distraction tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: Successful, no crying and we got the ‘nice’ cashier Celebratory ‘we did the shopping’ cake choice: cinnamon bun Cooked: Fish pie x 2 (one for dinner, one for the freezer) Kitchen music listened to: Simon and Garfunkel … Continue reading
The start of The Tuesday Blanket Tuesday
‘Hmmm. You’re rather twisted aren’t you?’ ‘I am?’ ‘You are.’ And that’s how the conversation started as I stepped into the room where I had an accidental massage this Tuesday. My sister (a beautician) was giving mum a facial at … Continue reading
Purple hat Tuesday
Mum was an amazing knitter. She’s made countless thing over the years and I never once heard her say a pattern looked too hard. She made matching cable knit dresses for me and my sisters only a few years ago … Continue reading
Woolgate Tuesday
I’ve been lucky: since the start of the year Mum has been in a good mood, or I’ve been able to manoeuvre her into one relatively quickly on my Tuesday visits. This week…well, things were not as good. We had … Continue reading
The chicken worked (!) Tuesday
You might not believe this, but…we had a huge success on Tuesday this week. Whilst shuffling around Tesco, I did my chicken impression for Mum accompanied by the usual ‘what am I?’ question and Mum shouted (while laughing) ‘Chicken! Stop!’ … Continue reading
Double confusion Tuesday
What do you do when you are just getting the hang of managing your Mum that you (lovingly) describe as ‘mad as a box of frogs’ to anyone asking how she is? Well, you go to Tesco for a bit … Continue reading
Parental daftness Tuesday
Tuesday this week was a little different in that my parents seem to have taken over in the daftness stakes and these were things that needed to be addressed… Mum and I went to Tesco. Mum had a panic that … Continue reading
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