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COLUMN David Jarman My back pages A visit to a Canadian friend, Maggie Delahey who is now in a nursing home that lies in the shadow of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, just off the Fulham Road. Now 93, Maggie has definitely reached that age when the birthday candles cost more than the cake. She is certainly more likely to be wearing a dressing gown than the leather jacket that she carried off with such panache, well into her eighties. But she seems happy enough, working her way through a stack of thrillers and listening to all the jazz on Radio 3, especially Geoffrey Smith. My mother died at the age of 90, having achieved her ambition of not ending up in a nursing home. Living independently as well, the only outside help being meals-on-wheels deliveries, some of which she would eat. She didn’t leave her house for the last two years of her life, perhaps worried that, once outside her front door, she would be bundled into the back of a van and carted off to the nursing home that she feared so much. Maggie Delahey, by contrast, seems determined to never leave her nursing home again. Alas, she finds it’s not always possible. She’s always been prone to falls. She once showed me the steps in Tate Britain where she had suffered one of her more spectacular upsets. She pointed out a dullish, red stain that she was convinced was the residue of blood from her gashed forehead. Now, every time she has a fall in her room she has to be checked into the Chelsea and Westminster for a couple of nights while x-rays are carried out. She resents this upheaval bitterly, she tells me, but even so, there is one consolation. The hospital food is superior to that of the nursing home. Adjacent to the hospital is a small garden. The benches have plaques commemorating hospital employees. It’s rather charming that the workers so remembered seem to have been employed in rather lowly capacities – assistant porters and the like. One exception is a bench devoted to the author, Bea Howe. The name rang a bell, but I was sure I had never read any of her books. Then, on the train home, somewhere near Plumpton, it came to me. She was the dedicatee of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s delightful first novel, Lolly Willowes (1926). It’s the story of a woman who loses her beloved father when she’s 28, spends twenty years as a maiden aunt before moving to the country and finding her vocation. She becomes a witch. Having reread it – it tails off a bit towards the end – I’m tempted to suggest it as my next book group choice. It would allow me to recall, quite possibly not for the first time, the following cartoon. There’s a group of women seated round a table. One of them is addressing the others: “Don’t get me wrong. I like our book group very much. I just think we had more fun when we were a coven.” Illustration by Charlotte Gann 31
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