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Growing up, I was lucky enough to live in a multi-generational home. My Grandmother died when I was in my early teens, cancer, and my Grandfather was struggling, living on his own. Oh, he could cook, do his own laundry and so on, but after a while it

This week, there’s been quite a lot of disparity in overtime offered. One colleague was saying that she was shattered as she’d worked two 9-hour shifts in a row, both of which contained a considerable amount of overtime. Those 2 days, I wasn’t offered a

Recently, I’ve been losing the plot. For reasons I can’t remember, my son and I were talking about gemstones, and rubies, in particular. I told him I had a very nice ring with red stones in it, though they weren’t rubies. After much brain-wracking, I

I know it’s not a popular notion though I do sometimes think the press should have a gagging order placed on them. The BBC, and others I’m sure, ran a story about how ‘some’ places are experiencing a petrol shortage. They state that it’s a very few small