Alan Skeoch

Month: June 2025

  • alan and MARJORIE at toenail snapping…EMBARASING



    Who could possibly be interested.:?
    WHAT is  Alan reading?  Stalingrad by Antony Beevor…inhumanity writ large….life is cheap.
    Toenail clipping cost 50 for both of us.

  • A HAPPY ANCIENT MARINER WHO STOPPETH ONE IN THREE — A FEEL GOOD STORY

    EPISODE  1,415 (I THINK) a happy story …WE MET THREE GROUPS OF PEOPLE THIS JUNE MORNING.


    “36 degrees at 8 AM june 24, 2025 — Let’s go to the lake in Port Credit.”


    alan skeoch,
    june24.


    Marjorie is exhausted.   care giving is tough.  But not today… breakfast at Macdonalds, — one egg wrap or $6, 2 large iced coffee at $1.79 each…this
    breakfast at less than $4 each…wow!.

    So we were happy and the lake trail had other happy people
    1) Three ex-vietnamese kids who took our picture and we took theirs.  

    My neck brace is gone but my head is crooked and my balance is terrible.   Head injures are  no joke.
    Self pity.

    2)  Then we met two Afghan ladies one of whom was dressed  in full hand stitched Afghan dress.  She asked Marjorie to join her.



    3…Then we met two super relaxed card players…shoes off, breakfast done sitting in the summer sun.



    Who could complain … who could feel downcast on thIs JUNE MORNING?





  • EPISODE 1,452 BULLDOG AND HOSPITAL BEDS

    EPISODE 1,452   BULLDOG AND HOSPITAL BEDS


    alan skeoch
    june 10, 2025

    A hospital bed is designed to to carry 600 to 1,000 pound weight.’There are not many thousand pound
    patients…maybe a couple of three hundred pounders.Why such a heavy bed?  For side rails, electric motors, cranks, etc.
    .

    We had these monstrosities long ago.  Never became a rental because it took four people lift one bed. Sent to scrap yard.

    Replaced by these fake beds. WE have 12, enough for a prison camp or hospital ward.






    How do you like the bulldog shirt?

  • A;l… where have you been?




    AL?. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

    I think this picture explains my absence best..

    Three months in a neck brace day and night.  
    bone chip. Ten doses of Tylenol 3…with
    subsequent hallucinations.  etc.etc. Marjorie has been my personal care
    giver and is exhausted.  Half of our house is a ‘no go’ zone.  My head is bent but
    will recover or so I have been told.  

    enough?

    What is the most dangerous place? The Bathroom…be careful!!!

    PS – Marjorie chose my shirt to match my skin colour.  EPISODE 1,453