So last night he says he doesn't feel well, aches and pains and I look at him and he looks quite pasty, well we had three days of respite!  I've been invited to one of my Legal Clerks leaving do, she was only in her twenties when I started at the Court and is now 45 years old, she has trained as  a Salsa Teacher and adores dancing,  so from Legal Clerk to Salsa teacher, you couldn't get more of a career change!  Although I was nearly thirty years older than most of my Clerks I always got invited to everything and it's lovely to still be remembered .  Thoroughly enjoyed my class today,  no annoying men, isn't it funny , when men can't do what women can they seem to want to make us as unprofessional as them!  My brother is the same, very competitive but if he can't do it he larks about, especially in the game of Monopoly,  many a board "accidentally " upended if he was losing.  I've just popped to TK Maxx and bought a picture frame, I found a photo of my lovely Mum before dementia took her away, she is with Faye and it's now got pride of place in the front room.  I think I'm pretty strong in character because life has thrown quite a few curve balls my way since my Father walked out on us.  You learn not to expect much from others and make your own decisions,  all I can say is its helped me over the past year and a half.  Hubby looks better today, it's beautiful sunny amd warm so he's gone to Richmond, I said don't rush back as he's having a giant Yorkshire pudding with beef,  seeing it's a ready meal he can come home when he wants!   See you tomorrow 

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Names please,  is that your son and you?  Xx

O yes sorry!  That is me and our son Michael. It took me a while to work out how to put the photo on. Will try some more tomorrow.

x

Reading the Sunday papers hubby sees an advert for rosehip tables for bad joints, his have not been good since the end of y raiment,  so he shows me the advert £30.00 for 120, that's quite expensive I say but if it helps  OK.  Anyway he finds them on line for half price and they arrived yesterday.   He opens the packet (well I did he couldn't open them!)  Sprinkles one on his shredded wheat, aren't you going to read the dosage, he reads nothing,  road signs,  how to put things together and so on, I take the box off him, six capsules per day for five weeks, so in effect we have three weeks supply!  He then proceeds to break them all in half handing me 12 pieces of plastic to put in the recycling.   I'll put them on my evening meal he says, that'll be good rosehip on giant Yorkshire pudding and beef..  I've had to wash his hair in the sink this morning because we still haven't got any taps!  I'm chopping trees down today,  you can help I tell him, but that's work he groans, yes welcome back to the real world I say.  If I haven't chopped him up and put him in the garden waste he'll be lucky!  Xx

Julie, more photos would be great and a full head even better! 

Hi Julie, So glad the wedding was wonderful.  It's a lovely photo of Michael and yourself.  Hopefully Dave will respond to his antibiotics and won't have to wait for too long once they are finished before his operation.  I feel I am coping well considering everything but do find nights much harder.  
Did your son and his bride plan a honeymoon or have they stayed nearby to support you and Dave?
Love Sue

Hi Carol,  That really is a change of career from Legal Clerk to Salsa teacher.  Don't this I've ever heard of a change quite that dramatic. Good on her.  It is nice to still be remembered when someone is leaving or some other occasion.  it's good your Zumba class wasn't disrupted this time.  I think that is a male thing, they are supposedly stronger than us females and will never let it shown that we are capable of doing something they can't.  But we are stronger that we think we are.  I can't believe Norman pulled his rosehip tablets apart and sprinkled it over his cereal, or that he said he'd sprinkle them on his beef and Yorkshire pudding  I couldn't think of anything worse.  I'll just stick with my rose and lemonade tea infusion.  I wouldn't even attempt to chop trees down, it wouldn't end well, not that I have any trees in the garden.  The one tree (magnolia) we planted here didn't surive, everything else did but the magnolia was the one I most wanted to do well.  It was planted in memory of my parents, they both loved magnolias and had a beautiful one in their garden..  Lots of love Sue xx

Hello all

Caz, I think if you click on 'read more' you get the full picture!  I'm still trying to work how to post more pictures.

The wedding was lovely and the happy couple had a few days in our apartment in Kendal, just to chill out.  They're saving for a big holiday next Easter so we will get to look after our granddaughter for a week or two. Thanks for kind comments about photo, though someone did say I looked like Jenny Sinclair

Dave is still improving, though the poor man does have pressure sores and swollen legs. He's trying to move around as much as possible to alleviate these.  He has a CT scan booked for tomorrow morning.

Sue, thinking about you especially at nights.  I too don't sleep well on my own. I hope it gets easier soon. Caz, let us know if the rose hips work!  By the way what happened to your taps?

love to everyone

xx