A mother’s confession

Amanda wrote an 11 minute song about her baby and about being a mother, and then she wrote 8,000 words of footnotes and photos to go with it, and released it through Patreon. Here’s a link to the song, the lyrics and the footnotes.

Do have a look and listen, it’s well worth the time.

http://amandapalmer.net/amothersconfession/

My Life #1 – A life of badges!

It was only in January 2012, when I was thinking about my retirement speech, that I realised my life had been following a path determined by badges. It had never really occurred to me until then.

Here are some of the badges that have been significant in my life. The more I think about it, the more I can think of.

Over the next few months I shall elaborate on each, thus providing a mini autobiography.

Limerick Challenge Week 8 : Lost 2

 

I really was stupid for letting you go.

I’m sorry, I’m grieving, I’m so full of woe.

I now count the cost

of what I have lost.

If only I’d told you, I’d still be your beau.

 

https://mindandlifematters.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/limerick-challenge-week-7-lost/

Limerick Challenge Week 8:Lost

The mild weather brought forth the flowers

It decorated borders and bowers

And then came the frost

the flowers all lost

Replacement will take hours and hours

 

https://mindandlifematters.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/limerick-challenge-week-7-lost/

 

Whatever happened to Whatsisname?

 

50th post!

I go for a walk most days, and on the way I normally meet others going about their daily lives. Some I know by name, others by sight. Some are a once in a lifetime meeting.

What if one of these individuals ceases to be seen?

What has happened to them?

Quite often I am able to find out from some other acquaintance that “the man with the 2 black Labradors fell down a drain and wasn’t found for 2 weeks!” or some such tale. His dogs would, of course, have stayed faithfully by his side!

But what happens when a blogger disappears?

Have they given up their blog?

Are they taking a break?

Have they gone on an extended holiday to some exotic destination where there is no internet, or mobile coverage at all? If so, are they having severe withdrawal symptoms?

Have they taken holy orders?

How on earth am I to know?

I have agreed, with one of the bloggers I follow, that, should either of us die, we will come back to write a brief explanation of why we are no longer around. I really think that should be written into the terms and conditions of WordPress.

What say you?

RIP Harper Lee

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35616011

Sage advice

Limerick Challenge Week 7: Aspire

I aspire to a choir, but can’t sing!

My desire just gets higher, here’s the thing;

It’s a fire I can’t quench,

‘cause the leader’s a wench,

and I’d dearly love to join and have a fling.

 

https://mindandlifematters.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/limerick-challenge-week-7-aspire/

Limerick Challenge Week 6: Feral

‘Twas lovely to see great aunt Beryl

she didn’t have kids, she was sterile

instead she kept bats

and dozens of cats

but unfortunately most were quite feral

 

 

https://mindandlifematters.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/limerick-challenge-week-6-feral/

An incredible itch, a rubber glove, and a very large penis

Now that I’ve grabbed your attention I can reveal that the following are real instances of encounters with patients by emergency staff.

 

A very smart looking lady, who was 106, presented with an incredibly itchy back. She told the doctor that she had no one to scratch it for her and asked for his help. Thinking that she must be confused the doctor started assessing her capacity, asking various questions. She sailed through the answers and, on the final one “Who sits on the throne?” she replied “ Doctor, it’s Queen Elizabeth the second. Now are you going to help me or not?”

The doctor decided he could not deny so venerable a lady some relief so set to giving her back a good scratch. She was rather deaf and started screaming “Up. up…. down, down…Oh yes!” At this stage the A & E sister flung back the curtains!

 

A doctor’s first experience of sewing up a very large cut on the head of an unconscious drunk went very well, despite the doctor being incredibly anxious with shaking hands. The closure was perfect, apart from the fact that he had stitched his glove to the top of the man’s head. The nurse had to leave the room in hysterics. They did not tell the patient!

 

A very sweet 90 year old lady had suffered a fall. She told the nurse that her husband had died about a year ago. The nurse asked what she missed about him the most, expecting a reply of companionship, or someone to hug. The lady said, “He had a lovely great big penis, and he knew just what to do with it.”