The Other Terrence Oblong
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Dave Clark
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The carer
I was sixteen when Alun left for the mainland to study for his medical degree. Alun’s father had died just a few months before, meaning I was left to...
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The tube of death pills
“I just want a pill so I can end it all Jed.” At times mother got quite bleak about her condition. As someone who’d always been active, she was...
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The international political crisis
Our island rarely receives visitors. Bar the occasional visit from Mary Beard, I can’t remember the last time a mainlander set foot on our shores, so...
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Funeral
One morning my mother and I were woken by a polite knocking on our back door. We quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, expecting bad news, as bad...
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Some of the things my mother managed to worry about
One of the many unpleasant features of my mother’s condition is that dementia is common in the later stages. Not, in my mother’s case, dementia in...
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