Our neighbour’s house was bombed!

My Dad doesn’t live in Baghdad but in a quiet street of Canterbury in the UK. What he meant to say was that the neighbour’s house was “flooded” (when the water tank burst last winter).

Silenced by a stroke
My father suffered a stroke in July and it has affected his speech. For one week after the stroke, he was almost completely silent. Gradually his speech is coming back. When … Read the rest