I was worried about my job yesterday. Hospices all over the country are in dire financial need at the moment and I worked hard getting my job in order to keep the cottage . The prospect of possible redundancies was almost too much to bare Today, it's best foot forward. I've cleared out my bookcases this morning and tucked away was a book , which has always been the inspiration for the blog Most people think Going Gently derives from the poem by Dylan Thomas " Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day Rage, rage at the dying of the light" But it is the novel Going Gently by David Nobbs that is the true inspiration "The novel is a series of memories, memories recalled by an eighty odd year old stroke patient Kate Thomas, who is paralysed in a hospital bed. Isolated and unable to communicate , Kate plays in her mind the video of her turbulent life as a welcome relief from the sad and bad old wome...