Recent content by Margs

No prospect of a long on retirement home 'food'. The stodge and slop served up in these institutions in the name of nutrition is of a quality that is dispiriting,tasteless,unnapealing and laughable all at the same time.

Well yes. If you have a certain level of dependency on care staff then you have to practice a degree of diplomacy, and restrict yourself to just fuming inwardly. That's the way of the world.

Well I like to deal with them by answering and saying "oh - one moment please......" And then I put the phone alongside the radio, turn the volume up full whack and go off pottering elsewhere for 10 minutes or so. I have absolutely no conscience about wasting their time, after all their...

Well she is brand new,so to speak, and very young (19) so I suppose I must give her some leeway. But to be honest I was quite non-plussed at being called 'Peggy' as opposed to my usual name, and by the time I'd concocted an appropriate response she was long gone down the stairs - it's always the...

Yes, and if these massively overpaid execs are supposed to "be the best brains"(!) then what on earth are the worst like?

A recent "new recruit" at my current care home will insist on addressing me thus: "Hello Peggy. And. How. Are. We. Today?" It drives me nuts, although it's just a simple thing, but I have never in all my life been called Peggy (which I believe is a variation of the name Margaret), I am far from...