Well here I am home alone. I find myself having conversations with my dog Pinto. Only good thing is he listens to me and doesn't answer my back. Only bad thing is he barks every now and then and gives me a fright. We both have to go to the door or window and look out to see if anyone is sneaking around. Also he wanders into bed before I do and leaves me up alone.
Tony is in Perth until the 3oth of this month with granddaughter Amy. They are dividing their time up between his brother, Kenneth in the North and daughter, Catherine and grandchildren in the south. The South Sydney team just happens to be playing a game against the Melbourne Storm over there and they will all be attending the game as Catherine and Jazmin are rabbitoe fans..
Just before going to play euchre at the club on Monday night I was washing up and I had just turned the insinkerater on when everything went pitch black. First I thought someone had turned the power off and I was a bit frightened (I have seen too many movies). I felt my way into the laundry where there is a large torch and went outside to see if anybody else's power was off but all there lights were on. I checked out power box and there was one switch that said off. This wasn't one of the usual ones that turn off so I gather it must be the main switch. When I turned it back on (or should I say George our neighbour turned it on as I didn't want to blow up the house) it went back off again. I then realised it must have been the insinkerater that was faulty and I hadn't turn its switch off. When I did this the power switch stayed on. I now have to get a plumber to look at the insinkerator. I would like to get rid of this anyway and get a normal sink as I have always hated it. As for euchre I don't know why I turned up this week as I only won 1 game, my worst night ever......although the company was good.
What beautiful weather we had on Sunday. I caught the M2 bus into the city and met Kerry, Michael and the children and we went to the Museum of Sydney and the Botanical Gardens. I hadn't been to this museum before and found it quite interesting. It was grandparents day and they had a live 3 piece band and singer which was a bit much for Felise as she doesn't like loud music so we were unable to watch them. At the moment they also have an exhibition about the depression years and I plan to go back with Tony and have a more detailed look as it was a bit hard to see everything with the children.
Freddo frogs went down well at trivia today.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Welcome home David
David returned on Monday from his travels and after a couple of days to recover has returned to work today. I am looking forward to seeing his photos and hearing his tales.
Yesterday at Tebbutt Lodge there was a concert in the afternoon and I was sitting there watching one of the residents, Lisabeth, dancing around to the music, with a couple of biscuits down shoved down her bra saved from morning tea. She used to be a dancer in her bygone days and well the biscuits I had made a mistake of giving to her as that's what she does with them. I began thinking about life and what happens when you get old and unable to care for yourself.
She seemed happy enough dancing around in her own little world but I began to get tears in my eyes thinking this could be me one day. Just then I was interrupted by Billy who wanted me to take him back to his room. On the way to his room he began crying and saying he was going to fall down as he thought we were lost an unable to find his room. I calmed him down and told him we were nearly there and we eventually made it and I told him to have a little nap. Billy is one of the residents that came from the hostel at Glebe which closed down and is taking a little bit of time to adjust to his new home.
That was the second person yesterday I had to take back to their room. In the morning Barbara had asked would I take her as she wanted to use the toilet. She uses a walking frame and it must have taken about 15mins to get there. However, the cleaners hadn't been into her room to clean it yet and when I saw her bathroom I had to go and get one of the PCs as it was so disgusting I couldn't go in.
As the concert was in the afternoon I decided to do Trivia in the morning. I told them some one line jokes which made them all laugh. Even Nellie was answering questions, even if they were a bit cynical. There was such a big turn up and I realised why. It was because last time I had given out chocolates. I promised them I would bring some next time.
Michael is spending 10 days in New Zealand so last weekend Kerry-Ann, Felise and Jake slept over at our place. Kerry-Ann had to work on Saturday so we took Felise and Jake to North Rocks shops to have coffee with Nora. However, Nora didn't turn up and had forgotten about it completely even though we only spoke to her the night before. Anyway we meet up with Burne and Jan who happened to be going to have coffee and joined them.
Yesterday at Tebbutt Lodge there was a concert in the afternoon and I was sitting there watching one of the residents, Lisabeth, dancing around to the music, with a couple of biscuits down shoved down her bra saved from morning tea. She used to be a dancer in her bygone days and well the biscuits I had made a mistake of giving to her as that's what she does with them. I began thinking about life and what happens when you get old and unable to care for yourself.
She seemed happy enough dancing around in her own little world but I began to get tears in my eyes thinking this could be me one day. Just then I was interrupted by Billy who wanted me to take him back to his room. On the way to his room he began crying and saying he was going to fall down as he thought we were lost an unable to find his room. I calmed him down and told him we were nearly there and we eventually made it and I told him to have a little nap. Billy is one of the residents that came from the hostel at Glebe which closed down and is taking a little bit of time to adjust to his new home.
That was the second person yesterday I had to take back to their room. In the morning Barbara had asked would I take her as she wanted to use the toilet. She uses a walking frame and it must have taken about 15mins to get there. However, the cleaners hadn't been into her room to clean it yet and when I saw her bathroom I had to go and get one of the PCs as it was so disgusting I couldn't go in.
As the concert was in the afternoon I decided to do Trivia in the morning. I told them some one line jokes which made them all laugh. Even Nellie was answering questions, even if they were a bit cynical. There was such a big turn up and I realised why. It was because last time I had given out chocolates. I promised them I would bring some next time.
Michael is spending 10 days in New Zealand so last weekend Kerry-Ann, Felise and Jake slept over at our place. Kerry-Ann had to work on Saturday so we took Felise and Jake to North Rocks shops to have coffee with Nora. However, Nora didn't turn up and had forgotten about it completely even though we only spoke to her the night before. Anyway we meet up with Burne and Jan who happened to be going to have coffee and joined them.
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