Later today I’m going to a new keep fit class with my friend Jean. It’s almost a year since she lost her husband Brian to Alzheimer’s & I’m doing my best to get her on her feet again. If she likes this class it will become a regular thing.
I’m starting to try & renew my relationship with my eight year old grandson Josh who is autistic. We used to have a good relationship with him before lockdown - he used to come to us for sleepovers & our house was like his second home. Now he doesn’t want anything to do with us. Covid destroyed our relationship with him.
Tony & I are meeting him from school & taking him to ours.
Hopefully he will stay a couple of hours and maybe even have his meal with us. However if he’s not happy we will take him home at once. I think we need to go very steady with him. I’m really looking forward to spending a bit of time with him without his parents present.
Alzheimer’s is a horrible condition lost my mum to it so know what it is like.
Covid destroyed a lot of peoples lives in one way or another.
I’m sure that small steps with your grandson is the way to go.
Hope it works out well
Went shopping a couple of times, first to Woollies then Coles and got everything I needed but each had shortages of something, ie Wollies had no Weet-bix, Coles had plenty. Amazing how empty the car parks are, people are just not going out.
Just a cafe meeting with one of the ladies this morning, then when I get home I need to search for the slippers my sister changes into when she gets here. Can’t find them anywhere.
Where’s Silver Tabby, who normally starts these threads ? lovely and frosty here, bit of decorating to do, taking it all slowly no rush, but with the sun out there’s decent daylight now, and the evenings and mornings are noticeably lighter. Enjoy.
Morning all, a lovely, bright, sunny day here - that’s two days in a row! I had a lineful of washing yesterday, and it really did feel like spring was in the air as I hung it out.
@carol I do hope your meet-up with Josh will be a success. You must have been missing him dreadfully all this time.
Over to see our daughter’s dog again today and walk her. Mr B brought her back here yesterday, but had a dreadful job getting her in and out the car, so I think we have to accept those days are over - she’s nearly 14, covered in lipomas, some very large; she’s arthritic and has cataracts too. She’s much too heavy for us to pick up, so all in all, it’s nearly impossible for her to get in the car now. We tried a ramp but she simply would not get on it. Maybe steps would work, I don’t know.
Its dry and mild here, which feels odd for January. More like a day in March.
Busy packing up for a house move in a couple of weeks, so today will be busy. I find things that belonged to the kids, and they left home years ago! Makes me a bit nostalgic really, but no time to go down memory lane today.
Good morning everyone the sun is trying hard to break through the fog not sure it will make it.
Waitrose arrived 45mins early, they were delivering to my neighbour so asked if they could come here early. So shopping put away and vegetables sliced for a stir fry lunch with noodles.
I have also defrosted and cleaned the deep freeze ready for 12kg of frozen gooseberries arriving next week. The supplier isn’t doing 3kg bags this year so I had to buy 12kg leaving no room for other fruit but not to worry I love them and will soon eat through them . It was difficult cleaning the freezer with a painful back that won’t allow me to bend but I managed it without getting ‘stuck’ .
Just as a matter of interest, what the hell do you do with 12 kg of frozen Gooseberries?
I haven’t had them since a child, my old man used to grow them, and while they were an OK (slightly bitter?) fruit I doubt I would cross the street for one.
@Bruce Hi Bruce, I love sour things I just cook them and eat them on their own. I love gooseberry pies/crumbles/fool but that would be extra calories I don’t need so I don’t eat them .
. It was difficult cleaning the freezer with a painful back that won’t allow me to bend but I managed it without getting ‘stuck’ .
