Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Friday, 29 April 2016

Last Arm Wrestle

The requirement for stronger pain relief for my dad sent my sister and me on a three hour trawl to the doctors’ surgery twice and three separate pharmacies (one of them twice) before we were able to source the stuff, even then, once administered by a nurse the desired effect of a calm and peaceful rest proved elusive and old fashioned gripping of the his hand seemed most effective, reminding me of when as a child we would arm wrestle and he would only occasionally let me win; tonight he was wrestling with something he could not beat and eventually, mercifully, he relaxed and peacefully surrendered.

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