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I think you needed that surprise Bridget. Have a wonderful time with your
husband visiting friends, have a safe trip.

Val.

Well telephone not cut off yet so can still browse but it could go off any time

Thank you for your kind comments

I will be back!!

B

Pleased your hubby arrived safe - enjoy your time in UK visiting friends and have a safe journey back home. Look forward to seeing you back on here in the near future.
Love Mary xx

Thank you for your message and concern AnninGlos
I will not let you all away from me for any longer than I have to!!
On a more serious note we will take care and at the end I shall be at the place where the heart is, at home

Bless you all and I look forward to being back
B

Take care with all the travelling around and hurry back to this thread as soon as you can bridget.

Hello to everyone

what a great surprise yesterday, I had just put the sixth bag of rubbish in the bins and closed the door, steeped out into the grounds where I live and as I looked up there was my OH. I felt 16yrs old, my heart was beating, I felt so happy, stunned and surprised that it was really him, I thought that he was going staraight to Attleborrough Norfolk!!

It was wonderful to see such a broad smile on his face as well, i am sure that if anyone had seen us they would have been wondering why two oldies were behaving in such a manner.
We went out locally for a meal, OH was very tired from all the driving and we just wanted to be together. He left after lunch today and has now arrived safely.

We are going to be on the road for about 7 to 10 days as we have a lot of people to see here in the UK and then go to Amsterdam to see youngest grandaughter and son & his wife so we will bethere for a day or two. So PLEASE PLEASE keep this thread going, it is such a thrill to see that fairly soon we will hit another mile stone.
I wish you all well not only for the next week or so but all the time and I will remember you all in my daily thoughts.

B

Beidget so pleased to hear you are feeling beter - you know the reaspm wjy - you will soon be home in SPAIN !!
Take care
Love Mary xx

Bridget what alovely idea to start your own memorial service and to have the local people join in.

We have done another charity run with books and some extra bits this morning. (Don't ask where it all comes from and there are plenty more books yet!) Today we left our offerings at the Save the children, Salvation Army and cancer Research UK.

Hi, glad you are feeling more like your old self Bridget, not long now.

Lovely and cool here to-day, had a few showers of rain which perked the lawn up. The rest of the household were all asleep when I came out to the computer which is in my daughter's workshop. Somehow I never sleep in the afternoons. Was up at 5 this morning it was just getting light and could some birds, weavers I think, thought they were a bit early. Had my coffee inside as it was damp out.

Off to see who is awake and to make some tea.


Val.

Hello everyone how are you all?

The agent who lets this flat called me yesterday to say that a family wished to visit today. So whoo had to but her running shoes on ??
I decided to ask the two cleaners where I have been working if they could come in and they did, and worked so well.

I made sure that the living room, one of the bedrooms , the kitchen and the bathroom were all immaculate and we worked very well together. The second bedroom is now a tidy store room for everything so later today I can finish all the packing and tomorrow I can dispose all the black bags etc.

Trust that you are all well, I must say that in the last couple of days I have started to feel sooo much better and more like my old self.

I will be back latter in the day to see if anyone has had any time to add to the thread

Bye for now

bridget

AmmimGlos

I can imagine that the Charities must be feeling a loss of money support at this difficult financial situation which is affecting most of the world.
I have had to make some dificult decisions about which Charities to support .
Now I support only the following
1.The Life Boat because I have lived by the see for much of my life and have witnessed them going out in the most terrible weather to assist those who are in trouble.
2. Great Ormond Street hospital because they do such marvelous work and my nephew lived to hos late 20s due to the wonderful treatment he had at this world renowed hospital and also more recently my Great neice is alive becuse of the care at the same hospital,
3. I always by a few Poppies on Remembrance Day for all those who gave and are still giving their lives for the freedom we all should have.

In fact a few years ago we took about 20 poppies back to Spain and on rememberabce day weweny to a small local green and the brits gathered together and we held our own service. Some Spanish people stopped asked us what we were doing and so we explained , the following year about 6 spanish people actually joined us and it has grown year on year.
Once again I have gone on & on
Sorry )
B

Yes thank you Bridget the meeting went well. A worrying time for charities with all the expected cuts.

Back from PE, with all the travelling I don' t get time to do much.
As soon as things have settled down I am going to try my hand at a small scrapbooking project, I think I might do my friends' golden wedding.

Weatherwise it is very windy to-day. Our gardener worked very hard this morning getting rid of a dead honeysuckle bush and dead-heading the hydrangeas.

I also have all my papers in acid-free folders and have them in 7 Arch Lever files all choc-a-bloc!!! I don't really know what else to do with them. I am so sorry that I didn't develop an interest in genealogy when I was young as I think so much information has been lost to me.

Take carte.



Val.

Ann I hope that your meeting went well

Hello Val and good morning, It seems to me that between you you and your brother inllaw have sorted everything very well. At least having the carer all day will enable yoyr BIL to have some time for himself which is also very necessary. The most imprtant thing is to maintain the stimulation of every day events and "persuade" people to do as much forthemselves as possible , but I expect yu all know that already.
It is still dark here but I can hear the birds cherping away but I have not yet opened the curtains to see what sort of day we have.
Last night I stayed up rather late and looked through all the paperwork that I have BAND I was shocked at a) the amount of paper wwork I had
2) How many duplicates I had
3) realised that i MUST put some sort of order to the certs etc I have gathered over the past few years. I know that I could put them all on a disc but there is something, now=ot sure what to call it, about having the real/copy of an event
4) I realsied just hw much otiginal paper work I have from my grandfather, and how lucky I am to have it, Thank goodness it is all in acid free folders so it should not deteriate

Tme for a cup of tea methinks but I will look in again this evening
Have a good day and take care, I shall have my tea and my special time now,

Bridget

Goodmorning Bridget, that's nice of the workers to offer to help you and it will give you time to do your sorting and packing.

Not a registered carer, but the domestic worker they had employed part-time and who helped him before, he will now employ her full-time so she will help with the bathing etc. in the afternoon before going home, he will manage at night as SIL will manage to walk to the bathroom. He will continue the OT as he did before, he has the bags of varying weights and the board with pegs that we made for her when she had the first stroke which will strengthen her hands and then hopefully she will soon be able to feed herself again. He will also take her to physio . So hopefully all will work out. Thanks so much for your input.

I was up at 5 this morning and it was lovely outside.



Val.

Val, what wonderful news about your SIL, it is so uplifting to hear good news. You mention a carer, is that someone who will live inn or someone whoo will come each day. Has he found someone already, and I expect that he will make sure that he writes to people for references. I have been recruiting people for far to many years but I was still caught out by someone just a few weeks before I went home for Christmas. In the UK we have to have what we call a CRB, meaning Criminal Record Check does that have to be done where you are,

I had some good news today two domestic staff from where I used to work phoned to say would I like them to come tomorrow afternoon to help me...I thought that was very kind, of course they will need to be paid BUT they are very good at what they do,
Well time to pack another bag/case so

good night

My SIL will be going home on Tuesday and not back to the frail care. My brother will look after her with the help of a carer. She has improved so much, she is speaking quite clearly, initiating conversation and is walking quite well, so she will be much happier at home.

Happy sorting!


Val.

Val
So p;eased to hear that the eather is cooler and herefore you must aslo be feeling better, I like heat but sometimes it can be overpowering, we do not het much higher than 30 at home but we cannot sit outside in such weather we go inside and then turn on the fans OH does not like airconditioning he says it is to dry,
Back to more sorting of what I want to keep and what Ii do not want to keep....
BB

I MUST finish sorting out the rooms BUT i will be back this evening