My last job was with an agency called 'Country Cousins'. For those of you who haven't heard of it, here is a brief description of what it all consisted of. The agency is based in Horsham and on applying to join one had to visit them and discuss if one was quite fit and able to look after mainly the elderly who wished to have help for as long as they wished and we the helpers wished to visit them. I did the job for about five years, and in all I suppose looked after about one hundred people mostly women and a few men. I only used to go away for about a week or ten days at a time, as I had a husband fretting away at home! I looked after some very nice and interesting people, two of them were the same age as me. One of them was having a breakdown owing to the fact of having looked after an acholic husband, until he had to go into a home, and the other lady had had a stroke which left her slightly disabled.
I could write about many more people. I looked after some charming and grateful and some not so charming or grateful!! It was the luck of the draw as one didn't know what lay in store until one arrived in their house!
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Written by Polly
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The picture of the old "dolls Eye" Switchboard brings back many memories to me of when I worked in the "War Cabbinet Rooms" in White hall during the war. although we had many clever pieces of equipement, we still used the old fashion type of switchboards .
Tony Jack. Mr. Churchill's Right hand man.
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