Deirdre Geraghty

I have just brought my breakfast upstairs on my stairlift. I am all set up for the next few hours and really enjoy the time. I love Sundays.

I have only just got up. I am not up to much today except from reading my New Statesman which my son treats me to for my Xmas/birthday presents.

We are so lucky in this country to have enough water to drink and even bathe in. We shouldn’t take it for granted!

It’s so dark this morning… perhaps it will brighten up a little later. I hope so!

I really didn’t want to get up this morning. I knew that I had someone coming and a busy morning but somehow I didn’t want to stir. I had better get on with it!

It’s absolutely true that the Palestinian people have had a miserable existence but attacking Israeli civilians is not the solution and definitely not the way to protest even with the right wing government in Israel.

The reason so many females wear daft shoes that hurt and disable their feet is the same reason so many men have their hair cut short from an early age. And how we dress or where we pray all depends on the geography of where we grew up. The whole reason a person is Jewish, Muslim or Catholic all depends on their parents and where they grew up. And if you don’t belong to one of these groups then you are punished for it. But it does give you a wonderful sense of freedom.

What has been happening in Israel is dreadful. Whether you agree with the formation of Israel or not it is their homeland – the home of their ancestors – and the Jewish people have been terrorised over the centuries, it is time for them to have some peace.

I slept in this morning and I was having a dream that I was stuck on a boat and I was running out of food and water and tobacco. The most serious of these being the lack of tobacco. It’s fifteen years since l gave up smoking!

I woke up thinking about the rape that happened to me all those years ago and why I didn’t call out or fight him off. Instead I completely froze and pretended I was asleep. That didn’t work. On the rape on Emmerdale it was said last night that she was terrified. I guess I was too!