Full Time Care

In my last post, I promised that I’d talk a bit about how things are finally starting to come together for us here. This blog’s only been around for a couple of months, so you can’t know the mess we’ve been in over the last few years. I suppose I should start with a bit of that. I’ll summarise for today, as it’ll take several posts to cover everything!

Where to begin? Well, we’ve been in a lot of financial trouble since returning to the UK. The cost of living here is significantly higher than I imagined and, well, my lady is not the most frugal of people. At least, she wasn’t: that’s changed over time - or has been forced to. A couple of years ago, I left my job at the RSPCA to earn more money, since we were spending far more than I was earning. This was partly due to the beginning of my partner’s alcohol problem.
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