Deirdre Geraghty

What a terrible mess we are in with our schools and hospitals and other public buildings and RAAC concrete which is crumbling and goodness knows where else it is. The Tories are playing it down and making excuses. They are not going to get away with it this time!

Well a couple of my usual political programmes have come back on the television after the summer probably because parliament is back. More to come.

My stairlift is going to be fitted fairly soon now and I have just been reminded that I shouldn’t use my new vacuum cleaner on the plaster dust even though I have COPD. I had better look into the alternatives.

I woke up dreaming that when I had ordered a dress during the week that I had somehow gone through to a scammer because I usually receive emails updating me until it arrives. So I have just rang them. All fine and arriving today.

I had just got out of the bath a lot later than usual when my Counsellor rang to say that he couldn’t make the session. It gives me a week to think about where we go from here.

I have gone back into long sleeves this morning. I know it’s just the end of August but I have been very cold so I will see how I go.

As l have said before this is no longer a Christian country. Over 50% of the people have no religion at all. Maybe that’s why l feel so at home!

My wonderful friend and neighbour C came over with her nephew and very kindly put my new vacuum cleaner together. She then arranged for someone to come and fix it to the wall. And then to top it all she completed the form to recycle the old one and put it in her boot. What a brilliant friend.

I read an article earlier which claimed that a person could be considered as still being alive even after brain death. As far as I am concerned once there’s a brain death that is an end to life and any existence is not a valid life.

The Engineer came out early and I told him it had gone wrong again late last night and he said that there’s one last thing to try which was to replace the cable between the box and the television. I really hope that this has done the trick – so far so good but too soon to judge.