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The other Saturday I attended the 80th birthday lunch of an old friend of mine Simon Mayhew which was held at a riverside restaurant, “The Depot” at Mortlake in West London and was a truly splendid affair attended by his 4 children and numerous grandchildren, I would certainly recommend the venue, both the food and service were excellent.

For a ‘present’ birthday card, I did a framed photo-montage (thank The Lord and Adobe for Photoshop), as the scaled down picture below which was great fun for me to do. The amazing thing being that I used a picture of him from almost 16 years ago when he came to my 50^th birthday, he looks no different at all, good for him and it set me to thinking around age and getting old.

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Despite the inevitable yobs that attach themselves to any sort of “Demonstration” and end up confronting the Police, last Sunday’s “No Cuts March” went off pretty well considering that possibly 250,000 people took part.

Will it make a difference ? The answer as with the “Countryside Alliance” one that attracted 400,000 opposing the Fox Hunting ban when Blair was PM, is likely NO so, one hopes everybody had a jolly day out and went home with a satisfied self righteous glow in their cheeks.

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After some 12 years in power, to hear that useless Muppet Brown talking about “caring for OAPs” makes my stomach churn. When people ask me as a full time carer about me having a “Respite Care Break”, I stare back at them blankly and think to myself, “You really don’t understand what this is all about, do you ?”

And the truth is, they really don’t and in a large part wholly due to a “Legislation and Rights” approach to this and most other problems. Pass a Law and regardless of whether you have understood the issue, everything is now fine, it has been “seen to”. How Harmon, how Labour and all this talk about the taxpayer stumping up vast sums of money to create another sacred cow like the NHS and calling it a National Care Service, one thing is being overlooked and perhaps it is the most important of all, Dignity because I can assure you that there is precious little of it in old age.

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