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My Dad - My Diet - Your Diet - Protein & the Elderly

  The Elderly   – Muscle Loss – Protein Deficiency. I have a choice;   Continue as before or, put down the drink, start to think, get back to writing but most of all get my mind body and spirit back on the pitch. I am due hip replacement surgery in two weeks, I am 5kg overweight, totally unfit and I have flabby skin where muscles used to bulge.  My 'rate determining step', as a dear friend [MG] just reminded me, was 'put down the drink', say goodbye to Stella once again and get back in the gym. My alter ego, Lambo, also thnks he can avoid hip surgery, by getting fit, sober and removing the offending 'Bursar' rether than replace his best hip. He is seeing a sports hip surgeon next week. However lets start with Protein.  My dad is 94, I am 70, and we are both losing strength, mobility and balance through a lack of protein. More protein means more strength to your muscles which in turn means more mobility and balance. The web says, ‘And over time, a lack of pro

Message to my Brother, John Lambert: Middle-Aged Man in Lycra.

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 Colin is back on Tramadol. SDC? Yes, Co-Codamol and now Tramadol. Lamb's blames the tractor, garden and railway sleepers. We both know the truth. Message to my brother John Lambert. Hi John, I love you and Happy New Year. I first published the blog below on 21st June 2015, just after lunch, same time as today, 2nd January 2024. I sort of wrote it to you and me. And John,  I am acutely aware the only person who can stop our parents divorce being concluded next monday is you.  Please John, Mum has more money than she will ever neeed and is surrounded by the family she loves. I have lived with and or supported dad for coming up to two years. He rarely drinks alcohol, he walked over 1 mile from home to his respite care home yesterday. I know exactly how dad can be, however he is our Dad, he was there for all of us when needed, with our mum he raised four children and he should die proud of that fact.  Whatever his steriotypical 'I'm the man of the house' Yorkshire attitude

November 2022 - Death – Divorce - Destruction - A friend in need - Dear John

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  I wrote this last November, as a message to my brother John, but was never sent or shared. The start of a new year seems the right moment to reach out and share some of my pain and anxiety. Om John It all started after the death of my sister Mandy in 2011, the family imploded and has never recovered. November 2023 and my mum, Little Betty (92) is divorcing dad, Slam Lambert (93) after 70 years. It is destroying dad yet he was there when I needed a friend. Please be patient. My mum left the family home 18 months ago and dad now lives alone. He is a broken man and his mind is beginning to play tricks.   The final court hearing is in six weeks, January 2024, just before dads 94 th birthday. It’s not really my mum divorcing dad, it’s my brother John cos he fell out with dad as a teenager, and he wants to protect mum, which on one level I fully understand.     John and I used to be close, I love him he is my baby brother,  but he now refuses to have any contact with me.   Its daft and

MESSAGE TO MUM 1. PLEASE DON'T DIVORCE DAD - THERE IS NO GAIN & ONLY PAIN

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 Dad, North Beach Bridlington 31.12.2023 Please Mum do not divorce Dad. There is nothing to gain and only more pain to inflict on your husband of 72 years. You took all the money, as confirmed by your solicitoes,  you have a new home to live in,  you receive £1,200 every month from dad's pension, your have your own pension, so why put him through this living hell. He fell over three weeks ago, spent two weeks in hospital and now in a respite home until fit enough to go home. He cries himself to sleep most nights.  Please stop my brother John from detstoying his father. ‘You couldn’t make it up’ , is what I said in the summer when I posted on the Featherstone Rovers Heritage Society Facebook page. My post was removed after objections saying I was lying. In a nutshell, I said;  My dad was admitted into Scarborough Hospital on 12 th  March 2022. They were told he was a violent alcoholic instead of shingles and a UTI. He was prescribed Librium instead of antibiotics. It got much worse.

Lambo arrested update. Do I stay or do I go.

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14th December 2023 - 167 Sheen Court Richmond. Both Colin & Lambo are about to be arrested.  18th December 2023. This is unreal, surreal, like some adventure movie where survival is paramount. In the photo above I was alone while four police offices, police van and car, threee men, the mother and father of one of the men, entertained the whole of Sheen Court for five hours whilst making many phone calls while  discussing the law of trespass. Aparently I am either a squatter or a treaspasser. Hey ho I have a choice, surender , walk away a free man or have a flasback to the previous time four day after Sheila (her estate own the flat) died. 2nd March 2020, four days after  It started around 1300, Lambo was in his office out the back fetching a ream of paper to download a Cam-Corder manual. 'Colin is that you' he hears. Um, not a voice he knows but, 'yes I will be with you in a moment and all this fucking paper is damp’. 'Colin Lambert, we are arresting you for ha

Breaking News - Lambo Arrested - Royal Albert Hall - Kingston Police Station - Hyatt Park Hotel Heathrow.

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2100hr. Friday 15th December 2023: Hyatt Place Hotel, Heathrow London England.   Lambo is watching planes take off after supper. Pint of Moretti beer: £8.50, Pizza, Salad £16.60. 2100hr, Thursday 14 th December 2023. Kingston Police Station , Surrey England. Lambo is being searched and the rest. Pint of water, Tuna bake, paper fork, all free. Twenty minutes earlier he climbed out of a police van (hip really not good- tramadol in pocket) after being arrested for … Please be patient.   2100hr Wednesday 13rd December Royal Albert Hall, Kensington London. The story begins on 0930hr Wednesday,  my mystery girlfriend [MG] collected me from the Crow’s Nest in shiny clean VW Golf.  She put me on the insurance, a massive £8.33 for 12 months, as we are both with LV.   And so, there I was behind the wheel of this lovely shiny  Golf instead of my trusty old rickety Saab that is falling apart and booked in for an MOT next Tuesday. Just bought some silver (same colour) Gorilla tape from

My Story 11: The difference if you marry a Jewish Princess

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Jeremy Pfeffer  Consultant Psychiatrist [retired]  Specialised in; depression, stress anxiety … For two years, covering my 40th birthday, I would climb into my car 0730 every Wednesday and drive; home was 302 Liverpool road, Islington, London, reverse into the road, right turn, Offord Road, HMP Pentonville with high brick walls to my right, turn left into Caledonian road, a hump in the road as I cross the Regents canal, past the massage parlour (that's for later), swing right into the Kings Cross one way system and onto Euston road. Kings Cross, St Pancreas - in its Gothic revival splendour - stations to my right. On my left, many university and public buildings - the very exam rooms I inhabited five years earlier - as both sides of my gaze merge into the underpass by Euston Square tube station, I emerge to see Great Portland Street station on my left, Regents Park to my right, Regent Street on my left with its classical Regency façade leading south towards Oxford Street. I am on M