How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Dementia, Ma and Me

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Phyllida Law. How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Dementia, Ma and Me

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IN THE BEGINNING

DECLINE AND FALL

DEVILLED CHEESE

VENISON STEW

SPANISH ONIONS

THE BAD ONE

WALNUT SLICE

1 JANUARY 1994

7 JANUARY

8 JANUARY

9 JANUARY

17 JANUARY

31 JANUARY

4 FEBRUARY

5 FEBRUARY

About the Publisher

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For my daughters and the Golden Girls

Dedication

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Then there was the car and the undoubted skill needed to park it off the road and up the steep drive, then some very dodgy manoeuvres to get down again. And there was the time they were struck by lightning. Both phones blew off the wall, filling the house with acrid smoke, and four neat triangular flaps appeared on the lawn, as if someone had lifted the turf with a sharp blade. Spooky.

That New Year the Rayburn exploded. The kitchen walls and every surface were coated with black oil that took three days to lift, and Uncle Arthur, trying to be helpful, threw himself on to the fire in the sitting room along with a log. Sage discussions took place over arnica and quite a lot of whisky. They would move to the cottage in the spring, they agreed, but by the time I left for London, the kitchen was as good as new and they had changed their minds. There was no question of their ever leaving the old place.

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