... why don‘t you start on that project...? It would be so interesting, like that Windrush thing they did some time ago on television, about the first immigrants to this country. I‘m sure you must have a story to tell. Why not start to get it down? I‘ve just spoken to Dr Raines and also to Rhoda from occupational therapy and they think it‘s a great idea....‘ Not sure if I want my life looked into like a Third World museum.
Another Justmyownbooks read for June.
I see him sitting by himself in the television room watching a repeat of Morse. You get paid for watching television now? Nice work if you can get it.
So I go in and sit beside him, and I say, in my innocent mental patient voice, 'That is the murderer, the one in the car. He committed the murder and tried to frame the other guy."
Don bangs down his cup of coffee and he says, "What are you doing in here, Gloria?
She would have got a scholarship, my father used to say, to some big school in England where they wear panama hats and white gloves all year round and speak in a soft voice without moving the lips. She took sick back home so she never got to see the mother country. Funny phrase, that.
Britain gives the kind of mothering that would fetch the social workers in.
I‘m delighted by today‘s #bookmail ! I recently purchased a few of the new Black Britain / Writing Back series that Bernadine Evaristo has spearheaded. I‘m so excited about this one because of the focus on mental illness in 1990 in a London mental hospital ward. Purchased from Blackwell Books from the UK.
Going to use some of these for our Bookclub picks 2021.....👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/october/black-britain-writing-back-berna...
The Fat Lady Sings: Black Britain: Writing Back | 
