[quote=“Gus, post:122, topic:50”]
I suppose this is probably not the best time to ask for the loan of a fiver[/quote]You can always ask Gus.
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Just park it in Liverpool overnight and somebody will nick all four wheels.
Park it in Cardiff and they’ll nick the ambulance and a couple of days later it’ll be back in the same place, painted up and with a bloke in the back flogging ice-cream.
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Damnably cruel to put vests on fish. it stops them opening their gills you know.
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It’s the interest that is vested, not the fish.
Armers, this is a huge collection of works. When it’s finished, you won’t know yourselves.
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But a short step from unvested to < Weatherwax ON > Dancing around without yer drawers on < / OFF* >
*Weatherwax, obviously, not drawers.
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You’re thinking of June 31st - National borrow a fiver day.
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I thought June 31st was when it was time to return the fiver.
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Depends which year
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You return fivers? 
Nobody returns fivers.
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The reference was to it being the time to return them. Whether it actually happens is a different issue.
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Went to a family funeral today. Of an uncle aged 81 who passed quietly on his garden bench after pruning his roses.
Quite the way to go tbh.
I mentioned this to my mother in her care home crippled with immobility, increasing dementia and COPD breathing difficulties.
Her response ? “He never was well”.
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Quite the way to go indeed.
I’m sorry to learn about your mother’s various troubles - which are of course by extension yours also, Armers. But that comment of hers was a cracker.
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I’m sorry about your mother, Armers, but she clearly retains a cracking wit…
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What they said, Armitage, what a cracker from your Mum.
My BiL’s Mum, well into dementia (though not Alzheimers) took a look at his new, red Volvo station wagon and said, ‘Did you buy it by the yard?’
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Thank you all. It’s emotionally draining … and financially. Thank God for the care home staff who do the day to day care i couldn’t do.
She’s been there for 3 years … and until a recent fall in which she broke a hip and, with all her issues, had a hip replacement … she packed her bags every single day as each day she believed she was going home.
She is plausible with her confusion. If you were not aware of the real facts you could believe her statements were true when they are anything but. … For example, She told us that went to stay at her mother’s a few weeks ago and tells the story with great detail and fluency.
She gets frustrated and angry and lashes out. Says quite vile things to people, staff and other residents and can be very hurtful. Plus she makes up terrible things about people.
She’s had a tough life with many personal blows (2 children dying … one at 16, one at 43) and dad an invalid for many years. Yet she was a councillor for many years and twice Mayoress of Bolton.
This is told, not for sympathy, merely explanation. I hope that’s OK.
I plan a quiet exit on the garden bench to be quite honest.
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I can’t say that I understand, because both my APs were mercifully in their senses until the day each died (more or less, if you count the day of my father’s death as the day he indicated firmly that he wanted only palliative care from then on), but I do sympathise.
I’m glad she is somewhere where she is safe.
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You might have told it for explanation, laddie, but what you get is sympathy. And those ‘personal’ blows will not exactly have passed you by.
The thing is with professional carers, they will be - usually - aware of when your poor ma is making up vile things about people and saying unpleasant things to them and they won’t mind in the way that you do. Because they see it a lot of the time. And having been such a strong woman, your poor ma won’t be easy to nurse. Some degree of distance makes it easier to negotiate that kind of thing. It is blindingly obvious from the way you write about it that you care.
As Carinthia wisely recommends, Hugs and Hipflasks. I’m so sorry.
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Going back to the OP…
Today I achieved remembering that the last computer but two had a lot of my poems and songs on it which never got to the current one (I wanted one to give to dougie), and asking Feral Techie to make them available for me.
Feral Techie’s achievement was bringing them to the most recent computer, and in a form I could get at.
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Today (& the following 3) … the drive. Been putting it off & making do for 25 years. Widening the gateway too, so Mrs. Shanks can more easily resist the gravitational pull toward the gateposts.
Oh … & 36 years since the wedding. 30 blooming 6 !!
But the drive takes precedence.
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Congratulations on your anniversary, and I hope the drive goes well.
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