CHAPTER FIVE MORE CHANGE The doctor looked at me and spoke gently, but he couldn’t hide the gravity of his message. Mum had broken her hip and injured her left leg but fortunately the leg wasn’t broken. For a lady of her age these were very serious injuries. She was…

CHAPTER FOUR A NEW FRIEND AND A CRISIS I took a couple of days off sick. I didn’t enjoy it though. It felt wrong. I hadn’t been absent from work for ages. The last time had been when I needed a week off after a minor knee operation and even…

CHAPTER THREE BEGINNING A NEW BEGINNING My Mum lived over on the other side of town and I usually popped to see her once a week. She lived in the same semi-detached that she and Dad had bought forty-five years ago. It was a nice place in a quiet cul-de-sac…

CHAPTER TWO — OFFICE POLITICS I have to say that, once I’d stopped crying, I began to think about the future, and I started to feel quite optimistic. About life. About me. I could decide what I wanted to do and when I wanted to do it. I could watch…

WHERE I AM NOW AND HOW I GOT THERE INTRODUCTION I used to read those books written by celebrities from time to time. You know the sort of thing that I mean. Life stories written by people who are only twenty-five years old. Not even lived half of their life…

It ended in disappointment every time. I mean, I didn’t rush, I thought carefully about things, looking for omens which signalled what was meant to be, and I always found something. I think that I’m really good at detective/analysis type problems, but in this particular scenario those skills never seemed…