[Margaret Pilkington]

My Mother is one of these independent old birds.....and believe me she can be a right pain. I always do a roast dinner on a Sunday. It doesn't take much to plate a dinner up for her and take it.....but what a palaver.....I have to ring her in advance to ask her to unlock the back door and the gate. Recently she told me to stop plating up a dinner.....when I asked her why?
She said it was too much work for me. I got so exasperated with her.

If I ask her if she wants any shopping doing she says 'No' and then I find she has paid something like £8 to a taxi firm for her to be taken up Ossy to do a bit of shopping......I've told her I will do it for £5.....no,hubby and I would take her to the ends of the earth. In fact when i take her to Falmouth later on this month she is going off the cliff if I don't get my wheel chair badge this time.....I'm fed up of being just an apprentice wheelchair pusher.