I Know Mum

“Hello, Mum.”

“Hello, dear. I haven’t heard from you in ages.”

“I rang you last week.”

“Did you? I can’t remember.”

“It doesn’t matter. How are you?”

“Bored and lonely. I’m stuck in this room on my own all day. If they take me downstairs, they sit me with a load of old people who have dementia and nobody talks to me! They all just stare at me. I don’t have d…