Update, June 2025

I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, but…

On the 29th of May (I think; time is blurring), my father died. I had been spending more or less all my time looking after him for the past few months. He turned 91 on the 13th of May, and I was pretty convinced he was going to keep going for years. He had a major stroke on Sunday night, slipped into unconsciousness, and finally died on the Thursday. It was quiet and he was not in pain. With dementia and Alzheimer’s getting very steadily worse before he died, I admit it came as something of a relief. Really, the man who was my father ‘died’ months ago.

So, yeah.

Getting back into work is not going to be as easy as I’d hoped. We haven’t had the funeral yet, so things may improve after that. I plan to take a few days holiday after the service and wake. Then we’ll see what happens. I currently have no idea what my next book is going to be or when it’ll happen. I am starting to realise what being a carer for the past year-ish has done to my head. People who have to do that for years have my total respect; I’d need therapy. Possibly, my general state is partially because my sister is taking care of most of the work required after a death. I had to do it all for my mother (it was during COVID), so she’s taken it up for Dad. Left with nothing to do, I’m not doing anything. Maybe…

More news when I finally figure out what I’m doing. I have about two books started; I’m not sure whether either of them will be the next out.