Did He Really Resign?

[poliphilo]

She gets fixated on particular headlines. This morning it's the final short paragraph in the Telegraph's editorial column-  a piece of heavy-handed Tory humour at the expense of the resigning Lib-Dem Minister Norman Baker who has an interest in UFOs and fronts a rock band.

"Did he really resign?" she asks.

I tell her all about it.

"Did he really resign?" she asks again.

I've lost count but I think we've now been through the cycle five or six times.

Sorry, since I started this post she's asked again so that makes it that six or seven.

I try to vary my answers. That way I preserve the sweetness of my temper. I haven't yet said how feeble the humour is or how evil the Tories are, but I'm sorely tempted.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It all sounds so familiar. :o(

You need the patience of a saint and you're doing amazingly well!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Yes, patience. She is not aware of any of this...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

She was at the hopital yesterday, she had an injection; she remembers nothing about it...

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

It's almost a good thing...for her. My mum was like that for several years.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Just remember, it isn't her fault. The fault is physical. Her brain no longer does the thing that your brain does that allows it to function the way you do.

And, the same thing may happen to you one day.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

maybe a new thing to do
a walk or something physical
that takes all her energy

might be a way to reset that brain
and adding blood flow by activity might help

might not

hugsss

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

These things have occurred to me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Perhaps...:)

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I'm rather ashamed to admit I voted for him in 2008 or so. To see him become this limp Tory appendage is quite saddening, as he did seem, once upon a time, to be a good person.

Still - maybe, just maybe, he'll try to be better, now he's away from Whitehall. We'll see.

Not sure I'd vote for him again, though. =:/