h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We've been waiting a long time for a place in a nursing home. It seems a lot of stuff has gone wrong or has been stalled in the municipal of my mother.

But right now she is restless and walks about outside without enough clothes. After the three weeks in recreation my oldest daughter, my brother and I will take turns in living in with her.

Guessing is always good, Ivan.

Maybe we should initiate a fund for hootooers to travel across the world.

We'd really like to wellcome you here in the Northern Hemisfhere (sp?), Ivan - and tanzer, too.

did somebody mention nude girls?

sorry about your mother and mala's grandmother, but you are right, boller looks like a cool place. let me know when the municipality wants to sell it

Only one nude girl, Pierce - her name's Chloe, she's French, and she's been hanging around in a pub for a hundred years now.

http://www.youngandjacksons.com.au/chloe.html
http://www.youngandjacksons.com.au/Documents/chloe_history.pdf

just goes to show that youth is highly overrated

and that hanging around in pubs is unhealthy

I'm just glad to be able to combine art appreciation with beer-drinking.

i am tempted to go to a bar, drink a few and try to chat up the first 100 year old lady that looks like that one

After a few you might find your aesthetic judgement somewhat impaired... You might just end up chatting up the oldest living creatures.

wouldn't worry me as long as she looked like her

i might change my mind the next morning, but we will cross that bridge when we get there

The visit sounds so civilised I'm tempted to jump across the ditch next time

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[Kea - I reminded Tanzen that she'd promised to return to hootoo one of these days. She didn't rule this out. Here's hoping.]
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Oh, good. I hope she won't be disappointed in the place though. Maybe we should spruce it up a bit


btw Ivan, did you know Moose?

Actually, , it seems the municipality wants to sell the place. The politicians hesitate to invest more money in the place.

Today the tvs had black screens as nobody has thought of buying digital boxes for the sets. It's only been advertised every day for the last six months ....<headshakesmiley). But then there is a problem of who is going to pay for the boxes...

Chloe is lovely, isn't she? And even lovelier on a photo with Ivan's, tanzer's and my face just below the frame.

Finding a good nursing home/residential care facility can be pure hell. We were lucky to find one for my grandmother a few years ago; it was run by the local Italian community. Mum thought that if any community would take good care of their old people, it would be the Italians. (We couldn't put the old girl in the Baltic community home as it was full of people she'd insulted, antagonised or otherwise failed to be friends with over the years...)

Kea, do cross the ditch one of these days. We'd love to see you. As for Moose - we only knew each other very briefly; I think I'm now living in the same part of town, but I've no way of knowing where Moose is now.

I enjoy reading about your mini meets

Fortunately, we know the one we found is good because my grandmother regularly visited her seconbd husband's ex there

this reminds me of a joke i could not possibly tell you here, mala

where are the pictures of you and chloe, tartaronne?

Oh, does it now?

We did have a lot of fun filling in the forms for the nursing home. We gave up when it came to grandchildren; explaining how who is related to her was just too much. We wrote "lots" and left it at that.

there are 4 or 5 divorces on my side of the family and 2 on the side of my ex'es. plus 2 adoptions. my ex-mum-in-law has given up remembering who belongs to whom

friend of mine has it easier: after living with one woman for almost 20 years he returned to his first love - her sister...

I have double half cousins, the daughters of my half ex half uncle in law and half ex half aunt in law... Both half-siblings of my mother, but not related to one another.

i give up

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I haven't gotten the photos out of the card yet, Pierce. Too much to catch up at the radio station.

But eventually I'll make it.

Good point about the Italians, Ivan.

My mother's municipal is trying to push us to accept a flat in a nursing home in Horsens, but we want her to live in Århus as it is closer to us and several of her family members.

The consultant of dementia has failed to send the right papers to Århus before she retired in spring, so here we are with hardly any options.

My brother is close to alerting the press; good timing when the local elections are only 12 days ahead.

Tomorrow, when I've finished a 45 min. magazine for the radio, I'll write a mail....

I'll hand you back to the mini meet - and add to the report when I've had time to think back.

Contacting the press does sound like rather a good idea. Good luck...