23rd June : Care home latest

"The food is very good, but I never thought I'd end up in a place like this. I suppose I'll draw my last breath in this room ... There's a night shift, they check up on you every couple of hours, you could've been lying dead for 6 hours and they'd take a very dim view of that. The staff don't talk about it if someone's "gone missing". You just assume that they've gone off the boil, kicked the bucket. Well I haven't seen much of so and so lately ... What time are you picking me up? 12? See you tomorrow then, if I'm still here ..."

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