Philip (Phil) England

Looking back at the first 10 days of March in my life and health. Saturday 1st March: DYDD GŴYL DEWI HAPUS, or Happy St David's Day. Had to get up and do a shop for Dad. Then nodded off on my sofa, got a terrible neck pain when I woke. Then had to run a friend about.  Sunday 2nd March: Helped another friend today, this time to move. Didn't do much, drove, and moved a few very light things, somehow ended up with terrible back pain, had to put my father off, was planning on popping to see him today. Will need my friends help when I get allocated a new flat or bungalow with housing. Monday 3rd March: Can hardly move this morning, terrible back pain, worse than yesterday and right shoulder in agony too. Not sure what else is affected as I have not been able to get out of bed yet to find out. JUST pushed myself to get out of bed, left hip in agony and knee with it, may need to use my crutch today. I MUST get a few bits for my Dad today, can't let him down today. My...

Fireworks, noisy wizz bangy things, they really do scare the be-jesus out of people and animals. Two of the dogs I sit for, Nero and Harley are both scared of them, petrified of them even. Harley though, it seems, is no daft dog. She has discovered a safe place.in her owners apartment. It's the room with no windows, it is the bathroom, a windowless cocoon for a dog that is scared of the fireworks. She jumped into the bath to escape the noisy bloomin' things. Her master, Carl, wanted to make it comfortable for her , put her dog bed and a few blankets in there for her. I saw a photo of her in her comfy space, she looked very content. When will the government ban the private sale of fireworks? They should be for sale only to councils, community organisations and religious establishments.