WaveSound Australia presents ‘Look After Your Feet’ by Rosalie Ham.
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Narrated by Rosalie Ham
@squaresoundstudio
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An irreverent look at the darkly funny experience of getting older from one of Australia’s favourite authors. This book is dedicated to feet, much maligned and underappreciated, but without which we would travel far less.
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In the later stages of Honeybunch’s dementia, before he went into so-called care, he became more tolerant— because he didn’t understand as much. Like a lot of us caring for loved ones, I knew he couldn’t remember which side he voted for, so we just cuddled together in the voting booth and I ticked the boxes.* Ian gave up cooking, thankfully, because as he got less capable his cooking got more interesting but less edible. One occasion, he failed to put water in the steaming saucepan with the potatoes. It started to crackle and the house stank like a smelting foundry, but the potatoes were weirdly baked and tasted okay after a few seconds in the microwave and lashings of butter and parsley. He also specialised in raw sausages. ‘We’re out of gas,’ he’d say, but the barbecue’s connected to mains. ‘I’ll pop them in the oven,’ I’d respond. ‘It’s electric.’ You don’t need to eat a lot of food when you’re older. Big helpings of food sitting in your tummy keep some of us awake, and the morning flatulence release can be more potent than after just a salad the night before. My beloved became partial to ice cream for any, or all meals, and was even happier with the Australian Classic Dessert— tinned peaches and ice cream. Sometimes I’d add muesli, but his teeth weren’t really coping anymore. We got him some new ones.
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