Part 3 (2/2)
Tuesday, April 18 Tania rang at 1030 thisto tellto construct a paGoda in their garden and had injured his back He aiting for an a in the background and the sound of splashi+ng and birdsong
I left William and Glenn next door with the Ludlows and hurried off to The Lawns My father was lying half in, half out of the Koi carp pool and appeared to be in agony Tania was squatting by his side, instructing hie” The a been misdirected by the computer to The Lawns Lunatic Asylu, were re incident in two days They bla rise in accident and eency ad, and I went in the ambulance with e him in conversation about Charlie Dimmock, but he wasn't interested
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon he was diagnosed as having two cracked vertebrae, a fractured shoulder and a deep cut in his left thigh caused by the Homebase Spend & Save card in his trouser pocket At 830pm he was finally taken up to Bevan Ward and put into a bed Without his teeth, and with his grey hair sticking up around his head, he looked every one of his 56 years He is lying flat on his back and is unable to do the slightest thing to help hie there, then,” said ress report
Query: Where can I buy two Pok?s?
Wednesday, April 19 When I visited my father today I found him in considerable distress The hospital has lost his teeth ”Not that it bloody well ummed, ”I couldn't reach my bleedin' food anyway” Apparently, his breakfast tray had been placed 6in out of reach of his good arency call button He is worried about Tania's reaction when she sees him for the first time without his teeth Apparently, she is under the i to tell ht the boys two Pok?s I said yes
Sunday, April 23, Easter Day, St George's Day I didn't knohich trousers to put on today, or what to have for breakfast A from the modern illness Choice Overload Syndrome? I just can't decide Somebody has written N F R O T H in red pen on my father's notes I asked a junior doctor what it stood for ”Not for resuscitation, over the hill,” she said and hurried away I hope this was a joke When I wished Pa, she accusedfascism” We are doomed Doomed
Tuesday, April 25, 2000, Arthur Askey Way, Gaitskell Estate My father begged me to help him escape fro the will to live due to lack of sleep and the pain from his bedsores His false teeth have not turned up, despite a top-level internal inquiry He is living on soup and porridge - when somebody remembers to feed him He is almost entirely helpless
Personally, I blame Tanya, his neife, for his accident My father is too old to be up a ladder trying to construct a japanese-style paGoda under her exacting instructions I have suggested to the rest of the fae a rota so that one of us is always in attendance at hospitalPandora at her Westnito I said that she should see the third-world conditions for herself She said she would ”drop in if she could”, but she was ”terribly busy” with Dobbo's cah and said: ”Did she realise it was Anzac Day; the anniversary of a sin”
Thursday, April 27, Bevan Ward A letter from my ex wife, Jo-Jo
Dear Adrian, Yourin 'morally dubious circumstances' She writes that he mixes with criminals 'on a daily basis' Can this be true? I have looked at Arthur Askey Way using the world eb satellite and was disturbed to see a burned-out car in front of your house I also saw that your front garden was extremely squalid Is that the et, Adrian, that Williarandson of a chief It is essential that he is brought up extremely carefully My circumstances are such that I cannot send for hi you to move William away from the Gaitskell Estate before his character and personality are irrevocably daed
I have tried to reach you on the telephone, but a recorded voice tells me 'it has not been possible to connect your call' I looked you up on the net and was alarmed to see that you are considered a bad credit risk and that you owe PS7531 to your newsagent, PS4389 to your milkman and to BT PS25408 A further search revealed that you are overdrawn at the bank by PS94716 I scrolled on further and found that you withdrew all h Building Society on December 19, 1999 This money was put aside to pay for Willia them?
I am very concerned about your mental health A search of your medical records revealed to ery three ti spied upon Your doctor has written on your notes 'could be mildly paranoiac' Please contact me at jojomolecomataolcom
So, 1984 is here in the year 2000 It is the end of privacy Iout the small details of ross disloyalty She was unrepentant She said, ”Willia round at the Ludlow's house” She said, ”Vince Ludlow is a career criminal, for Christ's sake!” I have to admit, Diary, that Williaht I overheard hi to Glenn, ”Mad Frankie Fraser ell harder than Charlie Kray”
Saturday, April 29 I ask Pa about that ht), ”I've let it to a fae a swap She said, ”They're not that desperate”
Monday, May 1, Arthur Askey Way I was driving my mother to the hospital today to visit her ex-husband, anda ju alternate bites - when I was pulled over by a police car
I was not drunk or drugged, and I had been keeping to the speed liesture to them via the rear-view mirror She denied it I was, therefore, baffled as to why I'd been stopped Two policeot out of the car Policeman One said: ”Would you step out of your vehicle please, Sir” I did as he asked Policeman Two said: ”You like a bit of chocolate, do you, Sir?” in a sneering kind of way
”I am a bit of a chocoholic, actually,” I joked
”Like to munch on the cocoa solids in your vehicle, do you, Sir?” said Nuhtly baffled, but answered, ”Yes, I usually buy some chocolate when I fill up with petrol”
Myto our conversation with ill-concealed irritation ”It's not against the law to eat in your own car, is it?” she snapped
PoliceerMy ainst the law to drive without due care and attention, Mada passed between you and the driver of the car like a parcel at a kiddies' tea party”
”The police their faces,” she said
I saw a nerve twitch just above his temple, and he ordered ue exa for what: Twix, S to the hospital My father's catheter had become detached While aited for two sheets to be found from somewhere in the hospital, I watched Beryl, the privatised cleaner, push a filthy, ragged mop around the ward floor I shuddered to think of the viruses swar on the end of that mop I hoped that they hadn't encamped into my father's bed sores
Wednesday, May 3 What has happened to the Archers? It was once possible to listen to it in the co and impressionable Now, I have to switch off if Glenn or William are in the kitchen
The love scenes between Sid Perks and Jolene are audible pornography It is like overhearing tarthogsWill somebody please put Cathy Perks in the picture And will the person in charge of accents at the BBC teach that sexual-harass by the present storyline, I predict that a socially-concerned villager will soon suggest that Aested script: Jill Archer (arravestone, ”Sid Perks is tooling Jolene”?
Socially-Concerned Villager (with liberal concern): Yes, and I deplore the dareen
Jill Archer: Yes, it was cruel to stuff an organic turnip up his
Socially-Concerned Villager (interrupting): It's the set-aside generation, Jill They've nowhere to go and nothing to do What they need is a youth club
Jill Archer: Do you think so? Do you really think so?