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Author Archives: john graham
European Last Laugh Goodbye
The Last Laugh Looney Party secret European project is finally reaching a conclusion. Back in July 2017 I posted a blog about the LLLP and it’s “ISLAND” Project to gradually take over the islands around the British Isles, as a … Continue reading
Eating the Clutter Elephant
This is my first progress report on my 2019 decluttering plan. The first thing to say is as of yet I haven’t decluttered anything but I need to start out with a strategy and a plan. So here goes:-c Strategy … Continue reading
DeClutter-A-Day
Happy New Year! I obviously had a moment of de-cluttering breakdown with my last post “Learn to Love Clutter”. It’s not a strategy that will ever work for me. Seems like almost a year has gone by since my heroic … Continue reading
Learn to Love Clutter ?
Maybe there is an alternative to continuously unsuccessfully de-cluttering. Perhaps I should become a hoarder and completely reverse my thinking about clutter ? Become a collector of EVERYTHING 😀😀😀😀😀🤡 Starting with SOCKS. Why not, it is as good a place to … Continue reading
Special Delivery !
It was a special day today for someone in the Graham household. Lots of cards through the letterbox and flowers delivered to the door, all for Mo’s birthday. But, there was one important one missing. The day … Continue reading
Equity Release Puzzle
This is another follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Aviva Equity Release
This is another follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Equity Release – Pot of Gold?
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
High Price of Dignity
Following on from my last weeks post about the under funding of Residential Care comes a contrasting viewpoint. A headline in The Guardian —— “Scandal Of UK’s worst Care Homes Revealed”. The article reports on an investigation carried out by the … Continue reading
Dignity be damned again !
Care homes are again in the headlines. The Daily Mail has once again raised its campaigning banner “Dignity for the Elderly”. It’s been a very long and wholly ineffective effort. It started way back in 2010, when … Continue reading
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