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Low life

Kicking a football has been one of the joys of my life

18 February 2023

9:00 AM

18 February 2023

9:00 AM

Two nights running I was incontinent of urine and woke up with warmly weighted pyjama bottoms. Former nurse Catriona didn’t bat an eye. When she first came to France she was a carer for three geriatric English expats, a lady and two gentlemen, and both gentlemen wore nappies in bed.

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