One of my new roses in full bloom - this is Champagne Moment. £12 well spent!
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Keith has had medication to sort out his throat, which worked after two doses.
He had his Covid booster today.
He had new cream for the pressure sores today.
The Care Workers are a step nearer as I heard from the Social Worker today, and his case goes before the Panel next Tuesday. She said she would be very surprised if it wasn't passed and then it would go out for brokering.
Yesterday we had a visit from "Technology" - which had bewildered me when it was made as the chap on the phone was rather vague. Anyway, a really helpful Dr turned up with his assistant, and they were the Technology arm of Speech and Language Therapy, and to cut a long story short, Keith is going to get a device which he can operate by hand or even by eye control! It will enable him to switch the light, the tv, DVD player, etc on and off, but best of all, it has a pager so he can contact us wherever we are in house and garden. That is a great improvement on his original "hurl the bronze bell" onto the floor (so I hear him in the kitchen or living room) or turn the tv sound up to 84 (which is deafening!)
The BIG positive on a practical level for me, is suddenly remembering that I had the phone number of the master carpenter who did our sash window repairs and fitted and tiled our kitchen. The door at the bottom of the stairs has been coming apart at the seams all the time we've been here. It didn't matter too much until Shadow-cat arrived but it has to stay shut and you wouldn't believe the number of times we are all going up and downstairs each day, and how many times I had to thump the top bar of the door with a big wooden mallet. Paul put in a gigantic 6"?! screw so that joint will never come apart again, and then planed the door edge so it fitted snugly into the frame. The best £30 I've ever spent!! You have no idea how irritating that door had become.
Other positives - Keith and I can bird-watch through his lovely big picture window. There are Kites, Buzzards, Crows, Pigeons, Swallows, House Martins, Swifts, Robins, Blackbirds, Thrushes and cheeky Sparrows, and best of all are the Flycatchers who are nesting out of sight behinds our stables. They do a repetitive "flight loop" to their favourite perch on the power cable to the cottage next door.
Not so good on the wildlife front was a rather enormous Hornet which decided it wanted to try its luck inside the bedrooms. I managed to get it out of Keith's room as it stayed by the open window and when it buzzed off, I quickly shut the window. Then it went into Danny & Emma's room and was more persistent - they pulled the curtains to stop it coming in, but it couldn't work out how to get out through a huge open window! It was hanging around for half an hour or so.
Off to watch Gardener's World and relax now.
D - I have not forgotten to answer your lovely emails but I have been inundated with phonecalls, professionals and going out for prescriptions etc etc. I'll get back to you soonest.
