love and care

love and care


Latest Episodes

episode eighteen: the hotel du cap
August 04, 2021

The Hotel du Capa love story My book, Love and Care is out nowhere you can read how a glorious fool was so obsessed with what love is and why we love, that he very nearly made a film I once worked

episode seventeen: the wanderer returns
January 03, 2021

After an absence of some months, the wanderer returns with newsof a bookyou can find out more by listening Ive been a long way away, and for quite a while. Ill explain why later, and offer

episode sixteen: a hopeful hashtag
May 11, 2020

These are unhappy times, but is there any comfort to be found? The last place we might think to look would be a shoot em up spaghetti western, but these are also strange times The Good, the Bad, and

episode fifteen: happy grow bags
April 03, 2020

season three greetings, new beginnings despite Coronavirus, because Spring too is in the air Looking back, its hard to understand why the experience took so much out of me. After all, I was not

episode fourteen: jelly wobbles
May 16, 2019

in which jelly, once a special treat for her grand daughters, becomes a threat to mums life It was a day like any other. Thats how it felt when I got up around six-thirty and showered and started t

episode thirteen: arrivals and departures
May 07, 2019

in which we celebrate an arrival and a departure, comings and goings, death and a new life Its all good. Im waiting at the airport for my sister Karen to arrive from Vancouver, just in time for

episode twelve: I can see clearly now
April 24, 2019

in which I find time to think about my own future and take the long view on what I might want when the time comes Its the last care call of the day. This is Zara arriving. Shes from Slovakia. Sh

episode eleven: gin and tonic with a zen master
March 26, 2019

in which my guru shows me how to live in the now and I offer thanks by way of a bowl of those cheesy puff-things and an ice cold drink as the sun sinks low in the sky Years ago, I became intereste

episode ten: the longest day
January 28, 2019

in which I recount a typical day, look back on those three dates I managed to squeeze in before mums escape from the care home and Maisie the dog pays a visit, along with daughters and ex-wife Ep

episode nine: past, present and future tense
January 23, 2019

in which the past comes alive over a cup of tea only to vanish in the face of present woes and future concerns