Neil's Celebration!
Hello Neil fans, I'm sure you're all wondering how we're doing. And I can honestly say we're doing okay. Much better than expected. And...
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Lauren Beard
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min
See ya kids!
It's 19th January 2022. After a long and heroic battle with cancer, Neil David Bate left us at 2:30pm. Neil was very calm, very peaceful...
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Lauren Beard
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
We survived the night
Well. I'm currently surrounded by sleeping lions. Like father, like daughter in the room with me (Abbi couldn't sleep well last night)...
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Lauren Beard
- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
Blue Monday
It's Monday the 17th January 2022. The third Monday of January. Unfortunately, this date has been awarded the gloomy title of Blue...
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Neil
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
Neil’s last post
Hello readers, long time no speak. I started writing this blog in November so it’s quite a long timeline within. At the time of first...
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Lauren Beard
- Jan 6, 2022
- 2 min
Happy New Year
Somehow, it’s 2022. I‘ve been meaning to write this blog for a few days now but much like the whole of 2021, 2022 is flying past me...
811 views5 comments
Lauren Beard
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
It's Christmas Eve
Yesterday Neil asked me if I could ask you all to donate to bowel cancer UK in place of cards. I realise it's a little late to be...
668 views11 comments
Tricia
- Dec 15, 2021
- 1 min
Tricia again.....
Quick update for you all......things are moving on a pace now and carers have started today calling in twice a day to help out. I gave...
612 views14 comments
Lauren Beard
- Dec 11, 2021
- 1 min
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
A year ago I returned home for Christmas and I remember thinking how awful it was that Neil was sick for such a special day. Fast forward...
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Tricia
- Nov 26, 2021
- 1 min
My turn......
I've only posted one entry here since Neil began his blog and as he's finding it increasingly hard to function, let alone write anything...
659 views36 comments
Mark Fraser
- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Spot the Hippy
With a biggish family it’s hard to let others in to the family inner sanctums. It’s probably a lifetime’s adventure akin to gaining...
351 views3 comments
Neil
- Nov 6, 2021
- 2 min
More Drugs, More Drugs
Over sedated? apparently...... Jaundiced? apparently...... Having funny little hallucinations? Not surprising really........ Paracetamol...
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Lauren Beard
- Nov 4, 2021
- 4 min
One year on.
It's been a year since I made the decision to return back to the UK from my life in Sydney Australia. Anyone reading this blog will know...
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Neil
- Oct 29, 2021
- 1 min
I’m not a poet
Imposter syndrome ‘the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of...
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Neil
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
Short and Sweet, Like a Donkey's Gallop.
I’ve been quiet on the social media front lately. When you're not too well to start with any little thing does you in. The last week has...
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Neil
- Oct 5, 2021
- 1 min
Neil's Shortest Post!
Coffee? Thursday 7th October? 10am? The Boat House? Charlestown? I’ll be there!
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Neil
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Hello October, my Old Friend
Hello October, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a cancer softly creeping Left it’s seeds while I was sleeping The...
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Neil
- Sep 27, 2021
- 4 min
A Sleeping Bag and a Cow
When I hit 60, still thinking I was immortal, I thought learning to swim might be an interesting thing to do. But like most of us it was...
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Neil
- Sep 20, 2021
- 4 min
We All Went Down to Montreux
Initially I would bang off one of these posts in an hour or so, now I spread the effort over a couple of days, maybe longer. So when I...
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Neil
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
Offensive Ur No?
How offensive can I be? I don’t think I’ve ever been particularly offensive but that’s only because I’ve moved with the times at least in...
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