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Yep, hope she's ok. You too?

Websailor

Yep, hope she is ok, you too?

Websailor

First one was so slow to show I did it again !! I didn't know having two teeth out affected the brain

Websailor

It's very quiet around here - Are you ok Sue

Scorp, have you heard anything?



Websailor

Hi WS!

Yes Sue is ok - I've spoken to her this week and she is just incredibly busy with one thing or another and hasn't had time to post.

Thanks for that Scorp, I was getting a bit worried.

Websailor

Hi both,just a quick drop by to let you know i am not dead yet
I no sooner got back from my holidays and another minor crisis arose regarding my mother.I sorted all that out,but now she has been taken back to hospital.The list of her ailments is too long to write here.I am home for the weekend,then off back to Brighton again for a few days.If she does recover from this latest episode,we have all decided she must go into a nursing home,the medical problems are just to many and complicated for any of us to deal with anymore.I will try to keep in touch but it is difficult.

Oh Sue I am so sorry, I know how difficult it can be, and sometimes a home is the only solution.

Thanks for letting us know, as we miss you. I will contact you before our holiday and see if things have calmed down and we can meet up. Somewhere half way would seem like a good idea.

Chat nearer the date if you are free.



Websailor

Judging by the length of time you have been absent from here I guess you are very busy or away. I do hope things are ok?

I will email you privately and you can reply at your leisure, if you have such a thing!

Take care,

*Waves* to Scorp.

Websailor

*waves back*

Have you heard any news of Sue, Scorp?

Websailor

Spoke to her Thursday - she is ok; if somewhat fraught. She will no doubt e-mail you privately. She has been busy in Brighton but says she will try to get on here soon. No need for worry.

Thanks Scorp, I will wait and see then.

Gorgeous weather here, hope it hangs around for a while.

Take care,

Websailor

Hi Scorp,

We met up with Sue Wednesday, in the worst weather imaginable! My fault for choosingtoat day instead of Tuesday. I was trying to balance out the driving for my son!

Heavy rain, squally winds and thick fog but we made it to Kimmeridge. Sue was upset because we weren't seeing it at its best, but it is a lovely place, marked down for a return visit. We had lunch at our favourite inn and then went our respective ways.

Sue has an awful lot on her plate at the moment and we deliberately chose somewhere to cut down the travelling for her. It was ghastly weather but we cheered ourselves up on the way back with a lovely cream tea close to where we were saying.

Apart from that one day the weather was good and we got about a fair bit. Meals out and a dishwasher at our digs meant a real break for me and my son, as we both look after ourselves the rest of the year

Scorp, hope you are ok and the weather is not too bad.

Websailor

Glad you had a good time WS! We all seem to have less time here lately.

Sue! Have you managed to sort your hacker yet? I've been wanting to e-mail you; but am not sure if I should or what address to use. Pls let me know.

High both,i finally managed to get some time to get on line again,this is because i managed to get my Mother into a nursing home.
She was sent home from hospital the weekend before last,a really stupid idea,but,them that know best said she would be able to manage with extra daytime care. What they thought a demented old woman with an exploding colostomy bag was going to to all alone at night beats me It beat them too,when they turned up in the morning,the place looked like a scene from the Somme with my mother collapsed in the middle of it all. We then took it in turns to do night duty but my youngest sister,who has done the brunt of the caring,had violent chest pains (lucky i was there)and was carted off style. She was diagnosed with angina,this on top of her diabetes and under active thyroid has put paid to her doing anything for anyone. Once my selfish brother and other idiot sister realised the majority of the care would now be down to them,a family conflab was called and a nursing home swiftly sorted The nursing home is in Worthing,a graveyard with lights,but my mother seems to think she is on holiday and is having a very nice time.I am not going to see her until next Monday,so peace at last
The problem with my email seems to have been sorted,it only affected the yahoo mail,it even sent one to myself
WS in spite of the weather,it was lovely to see you both again,i did put a couple of wet soggy pictures on flickr,but, as that helpful chap with the camera said,you really must go there again when the weather is better and preferably on a weekend,then, we could mooch up the road to Tynham.
I have had time to do a bit of gardening and i found a couple of Stag Beetles lounging around in my Begonias,creepy looking things,i put a couple of pictures up of them.
I have missed chatting to you both,but now things have calmed down a bit,hopefully we can resume our little chats. to you both.

Sue, I hope you can get a bit of time to look after yourself now. I am sorry things went pear shaped with you sister and your Mum, but sometimes it takes something like that to get matters moving.

It was lovely to see you and I think my son is planning to go to Dorset again next year. We would love to stay for two weeks as we find it very tiring with all the travelling, but it depends if he can get the time off, and we have to look at the financial situation. With everything that is happening these days you just don't know where you are.

I still haven't put my photos up, though we didn't taken as many this year, but I might have some free time next week to do last year's as well. I make these plans but things happen, so no promises.

Stag beetles fascinate me. I came home to find everything had grown apace again and I have been spending every spare minute in the garden when it isn't raining. I m leaving a lot of 'weeds' as the bees, butterflies and ladybirds are loving them. I will have a massive clear out later in the year. I have six large bin bags of garden waste for the Council to collect on Thursday so I must have done some work, though I could happily snooze all day! Must lose some weight, dragging a ton of spuds around all day is tiring!!

Yahoo has been having a lot of trouble with hacking so you are not on your own.

*waves* to Scorp.

Take care, thanks for posting,

Websailor

Just when i thought i had things sorted,the nursing home caring for my mother,had to call a doctor,who then called an ambulance. This was last night. I am waiting for a phone call from my sister,she will update me. At least she is in Worthing Hospital,far better than the hell hole in Brighton.
The weather here was hot and humid all day and i had to work. I was looking forward to a lovely evening stroll,but now it is persisting down. I musn't grumble,it will save me watering my beans and tomatoes.I will try and get out for a while tomorrow,i have forgotten what the countryside looks like

Oh dear, what a pain. Still if she is in a better place that is something. Maybe they will sort her out.

It was sunny here this morning but the promised rain appeared at lunch time and it hasn't stopped since. Glad I got my shopping done before it pelted down.

I hope you can get out to some countryside, you are like me, it is a tonic and somehow puts things in perspective.

Take care,

Websailor

I went to visit my mother yesterday. I decided to go there and back on the same day as my daughter wanted to come with me,the idea was,she would drive one way and me the other.After half an hour of her driving i could not stand it any longer and took over myself.She drives sedately,i told her if she ever lost her job she could always get work in a funeral company where her skills would be appreciated
Sadly,my mother is in a shocking condition,she barely wakes up and finds it hard work communicating.She is in a room on her own.When we arrived unannounced out of visiting hours,she was covered in coffee,couldn't reach her water and the blinds had fallen off the window causing the sun to beat down on her head. I WENT TOTALLY BALLISTIC!! You have never seen so many nurses,porters and other staff running about like chickens with their heads cut off. The blinds were fixed immediately and i was assured that the water situation would not happen again. My daughter looked terrified,i think she thought i was going to kill someone and my mother,bless her,said,"I knew your temper would come in useful one day,thank you dear" She even looked at me as if she actually loved me,so there's a first
It is raining here today,so i have been catching up with the housework tomorrow is supposed to be better,i must try to get out. Thursday i am working and Friday i have to do another course on diabetes and nutrition. Happy days!