... said one of my Clients, yesterday. I was a bit nonplussed by this, my Clients don't usually enquire about my out-of-work activities, we normally just talk about their gardens!
But with increasing age - theirs, not mine - I have found that my senior Clients do develop an interest in what their assorted “staff” do in the rest of the week: and I mean people like cleaners, chiropodists (yes, I know they have a funny name now, but they'll always be chiropodists to me), physical therapists, hairdressers - as the Clients are less able to get out of their houses, they become more reliant on “staff” to keep them interested.
In fact, one delightful elderly couple (I was with them for 15 years) used to say that once they were both housebound, they looked forward to my weekly visits with positive excitement, because I would “bring new topics of conversation into the house”. After being together their entire lives, they were running out of things to talk about, they said!
So, in case you are interested, this is what I did last weekend:
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