Mum has Alzheimer's. She has been diagnosed for around two years, and over that time we have been watching a slow deterioration in her memory. This has been particularly hard from Dad, who in his mid 80s has been flung into the role of carer. This is not a position which he easily fits into. …
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The day the music died.
It's the end of an era. After twenty years of lunchtime jazz at the Head of Steam it has ended. Lunch on the last Sunday will not be the same. The pub has been taken over and the accountants have looked at the turnover. It looks like music is uneconomical. This sort of thing has …
Abandoned
I was abandoned this week. Twice. It started so well. The humans were celebrating, the male human was 60 years old, which as any donkey will tell you is seriously ancient. Well he would be on the Tuesday. But they started early. On the Friday they took me on an overnight trip to the Shibden …
Goodbye 2013
A retrospective. Goodbye 2013, I'll miss you. You were the year I started a job, in Leeds, after 7 months unemployment. You were the year I gained competency and sealed my year's contract. You were the year my contact was extended for a further six months. You were the year I took the risk of …
Happy New Year
This is how I spent the Christmas period, as a not to scale onlooker at the nativity. Looking to Jesus is a good place to be. Happy new year.
Little donkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Nni_dYORY Little donkey
No vacancies
No vacancies In my childhood we spent our summer holidays in Blackpool. My grandparents had retired there and we stayed in their house. Being in a residential town, to get to the beach was a trek, past rows of guest houses with Vacancies or No Vacancies signs in the windows. It was a good indication …
Merry Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5rOO2v2dU Great costume budget.
Kidnapped
I've been kidnapped. The humans who look after me were not vigilant enough and their youngest foal and her husband kidnapped me and took me shopping. (Don't they know I'm a real ale donkey, not a white cider donkey. The cat was friendly though. (Hi TC, are you reading this?)
Streetivity
It's on the streets. It's a nativity. It's Streetivity. Young people from Holy Trinity Anglican and Gledholt Methodist churches, Huddersfield, took the Christmas story to the streets, and they had a donkey. A rather short eared donkey. A pdonkey. OK it was a pony playing the donkey. Through the streets we went, with traffic stopped …
Making an ass of myself 