This is a  rollator.  With my luck when I push it the three wheels  turn in different directions at the same time. If I am carrying a cup of tea the rollator always collides with the door frame and my flat has decorative tea stains and coffee stains on the carpets at the entrance to each room.I also have decorative paintwork where the wheels collide with doors and skirting boards.

The rollator has a carrying bag  on the frame with a very dark interior. This is useful for carrying items like telephones that hide in the dark, especially if you are  also carrying tea cups. It is fitted with a profane language gimmick for  use when you can't remember where you put the telephone.

I am 94 and relativley slow when it comes to finding the phone when it rings: most people think i am a champion sprinter and expect me to find and pick up the instrument the moment it rings. Most have never heard my language when I answer and ring back because by then they are talking to someone else which stops them talking to me. I imagine they are saying "old Phil Goodwin gets about for an old man; never at home whenyou ring! "

I am very lucky. I have beautiful carers come to put me to be each night at 9.30 pm
If I rewrite that truthfully it says: " I have beautiful carers come to put me to bed every night!
I am 94 and very unlucky!!



This card with Boris's statue was sent to me from Chile by Tony Cram, an old colleague. He writes:
"This is the remotest place we have ever been"

Never got to Trowbridge inWiltshire then?

I thought you would like to see how rich he is with a postage stamp costing 1000 dollars!!

You may wonder why I am writing this blog. It is just that in these strange days more people use the internet and telephone to make contact and I like thinking I am in the real world and can talk about things that have little relevance to anything else that is going on outside.

Send me a reply if you like; tell me how you are coping. Love to hear from you.