can't remember when - probably over my divorce three years ago.
Starbuck's joke (adapted for my mother): During a visit to my mother's doctor in Truro, I asked him, "How do you determine whether or not an older person should be put into an old peoples's home here in the City?"
"Well," he said, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person to empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," I said. "A normal person would use the
Bucket because it is bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No" he said. "A normal person would pull the plug.
Do you want a bed near the window?"
(i) Commission to start re drawing (having just been on a liberating art course for creativity this morning (ii) something going into my Ed tomorrow.