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🎈🎈🎈Happy birthday, Dad!🎈🎈🎈

Not quite what we had planned, but a damn good cake (my offer to make a chocolate poo was passed over 🤷🏼‍♀️), connecting all of us through the powers of technology and most of us in person too. 💜

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Pog’s Chaotic Kitchen Care

So, while Mum is now nicely settled in her new digs, has passed her probation (!) and pretty much expects to be received as royalty by all people at all times, we can focus on Dad a little bit more. … Continue reading

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New Digs

It’s been just over a month since I last wrote here, but it feels more like a year.  How else can so much have happened? the big thing though, is this:  Mum has new digs.  She now lives in a … Continue reading

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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

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Muddled Life Practical Tip – Consent to talk to doctors

Getting an appointment to see a doctor can be tricky for all of us, right?  But I had no idea that as people age they can be pushed ever so slightly to the side and then quietly ignored to the … Continue reading

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