Saturday, May 11, 2013
All Is Well
We went out for a Thai meal last night. I'd been home at my place all day, and in reflective mood (see the last but one entry). Regular readers will know I've been quite worried about our future together. Last night we aired a few of the complications, and on the way home I ventured that all I...
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Something good
I wrote a while ago about the bit of work I do for my former teacher, an elderly retired clergyman. We had coffee yesterday, with 'J,' his assistant and researcher, who types up all his work from dictation. They work out of her home office, which requires quite a bit of dedicated organisation on her...
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What really matters
Our steady little bubble has been under assault for the last six to eight months. It started with his 92-year-old mother's increasing frailty, which forced the decision (overdue, to my mind) to place her in a residential care home. She's happy now, much more relaxed, and has become quite a sweet old...
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Back on Terra Firma
Sorrento was lovely - like being on honeymoon. Coming back... well, nothing lasts forever. The plane was 50 minutes late taking off, so we got in at midnight.. just about half an hour late. Both of us are used to flying, so we noticed when we seemed to be coming in to land rather fast... it was a...
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Sorrento here we come
I'm packing... I think we deserve a break! We leave at 5:15 in the morning, to check in at Gatwick for an 8:45 flight to Naples, transfer to Sorrento and then have a thoroughly nice time for the next four days. I can't wait; we have had enough to contend with over the last six months - since Granny...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Po-faced
I am coming down with a cold, and no wonder - Spring has gone AWOL. Daughter has mostly sulked all day. Son has at least been conciliatory. He is willing to meet my bloke - next visit. In about a year. He says I'm to tell him it's not him, it's that he (my son) isn't comfortable with this right now....
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Now Mum's Going Nuclear
Made the mistake of talking to my mother this morning. There was the always-infuriating-but-just-be-patient pregnant pause, even longer than usual, when she answered the phone, and as we spoke I realised the reason for her manner. I'd rung my brother in Australia to tell him about our sister's...
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Crossroads?
Daughter is here again. Last night my emotions bubbled up while I was cooking, before she got here. I wasn't looking forward to dealing with her all weekend on top of everything else that's been swirling around over the past few weeks. I'd had a difficult telephone conversation with my bloke.. I was...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
A Bit of a Tangle
I suppose we are all a bit unsettled by the events of the past couple of weeks. I've had my children coming back and forth for a while, and additional guests for four days; my sister's worst fears have been confirmed; my bloke and I have been separated for the best part of three weeks, apart from...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Not Good News
A few posts back I mentioned my sister's biopsy, and today it's been confirmed that my lovely sister has breast cancer. I've just spent half an hour trying to soothe my mother, who at 82 is panicking. She is scared that her daughter will die. She is frightened that she will lose her closest support,...
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