: About Me

My passion is ...

making people laugh. I feel that if you can make someone laugh each day, you will not have done much harm in this world.

I know too much about ...

The ups and downs of life

My parents always told me ...

My father mainly, my mother died when I was 11, that I was not going to be much.

My childhood ambition ...

To become a policeman.

My favorite memory ...

Evacuated during the war to live with a game keeper and his wife.

Why I write ...

You can talk for hours and nobody will interupt you.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A variety of subjects.

My first job ...

A Metropolitan police cadet in London

My best moment ...

A 40 minute face to face, one to one, with Margret Thatcher

My inspiration ...

"To do as my manhood bids me do..." Ritchard Burton the explorer.

Relationships & Family > Elderly Parents & Care Caring for your elderly parents

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My mother died when I was 11, and my Aunt Mary became a " surrogate mum". When she and I were helping with my 86 year old grandmother, Mary's mother, she mused as to who would be looking after her in a similar circumstance, and I proclaimed heartily, "me," "Fat lot of good you'll be," she replied, "You'll be in your late 60's." The years rolled by, until Mary herself was in her 80's, the only difference was that she was a retired Metropolitan police detective chief superintendent, a spinster, and a very resolute independent person. She lived in Chelsea, London, and I lived in Northamptonsh...

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