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1. I've really not been great about posting lately, just never seem to get my head around composing anything sensible. Maybe I should just admit defeat and post something nonsensical instead!
2. Aunty Lel has now been moved to the Infectious Diseases Ward, which is a bit of an experience. They are much more restrictive about visiting up there and make us wear disposable pinnies and gloves! She seems to be holding her own; she isn't making that much progress, but is better than she was and certainly isn't getting worse. She still isn't eating properly, though, and keeps throwing up when she does try to eat, so they might have to put the feeding tube back down her nose if she carries on like this. It's going to be a very long haul.
3. The other day when I was at the hospital visiting, I ran into one of my old teachers, Mr Casterton, who taught me A'level Maths 16 years ago. More to the point, he recognised me, remembered my name and everything, whereas I had absolutely no idea who he was until he told me! In my defence, I was caught off-guard when he addressed me by name and had to run through a whole gamut of possible associations (someone I'd met at the hospital while visiting, someone from work, someone from a previous job, someone from uni...) and just hadn't got back as far as school before he reminded me. I knew who he was once he told me and then it was obvious, he hasn't changed that much. Clearly neither have I!
4. I bought a new telly this week. It's a lot smaller than my old one, both in terms of bulk and screen size, but is nonetheless a decent enough size for my needs, plus has all the mod cons I've been lacking all these years like wide screen, built-in freeview capacity, etc. The old one was a good TV in its day, but was donkey's years old, was already third hand when I was given it, was ridiculously bulky and heavy, has been dropped at least once, was not wide screen so cut off the edges of most shows as they are nearly all filmed in wide screen these days, and the picture quality was starting to deteriorate. Definitely time for a change. The new one turned into a bit of a saga, however. I got to the shop just before it closed on Tuesday and found one that I liked, but they only had one left, which was the display model. Since there was a discount on it because of being ex-display I was satisfied with that, bought it and took it home...only to find that they'd given me the wrong remote control for it. So, back I went to the shop again last night. They couldn't find the right remote control for my TV, although they did find the instruction manual, which is useful. But then they found a remote control for a Ferguson TV which is identical to the one I needed for my Toshiba TV, so they gave me that instead, and it works perfectly. Problem resolved - but what a faff!
5. Chelsea turned 15 last Saturday. How did she get to be so old! She remains extremely challenging, although her behaviour tends to fluctuate wildly depending on who she is friendly with at any given time. She just can't reconcile her own personality with that of a close friend, so instead of just being herself she takes on the personality traits and attitude of whoever she is closest to at the moment. And some of the kids she hangs out with are little horrors. She gets herself grounded on a regular basis, and those periods always come as a relief as she turns into Chelsea again, once separated from those external influences. Life with her is always going to be a rollercoaster, I suspect. I just hope she settles down a bit once she is past the turbulent years of adolescence.
6. Stuff continues to go on with the Cornwall crowd. Shanei went home to visit over Easter and came back saying that her mother had been snorting cocaine in front of her and was possibly also dealing drugs - although Nei does lie, so it is hard to know how much of what she says is true and how much is exaggeration. Also, it seems there was a case conference for the children last week and the mother well and truly went down in flames at it, admitted taking heroin and declared that she never wants anything to do with her f-ing children ever again, she hates them all, etc. Nothing she hasn't said before, of course, but this time she said it in front of the headteacher, social workers and police. Plus she has been posting pornographic images of herself on facebook for the whole world to see, including her children. Shanei has been bullied in school because of it, and probably the younger children too. A residence hearing has been called for later this month - and about time, too! I can't think what social services have been thinking, letting this state of affairs continue for so long. Hopefully sole residence will be granted to their father and the injunction against taking them out of Cornwall will be removed, so that D&R can help out more again.
7. Work continues busy, since I am now doing Sarah's job as well as my own. I met up with Sarah and baby Holly for lunch last week, though, and had lovely long baby cuddles. Holly is now three months old and three weeks past her due date, has hit 8lbs and is finally wearing newborn sized outfits. She is adorable - and so tiny still!
8. My cousin Rachel's new baby, Millie-Rose, is rather adorable, as well.
9. Seem to be building up a stockpile of pics that I really must get around to picspamming at some point.
10. Have booked tomorrow and Monday off work, so hooray for a long weekend - the break is much, much needed! My garden and I have big plans - I'm never going to get everything done that I want to!
2. Aunty Lel has now been moved to the Infectious Diseases Ward, which is a bit of an experience. They are much more restrictive about visiting up there and make us wear disposable pinnies and gloves! She seems to be holding her own; she isn't making that much progress, but is better than she was and certainly isn't getting worse. She still isn't eating properly, though, and keeps throwing up when she does try to eat, so they might have to put the feeding tube back down her nose if she carries on like this. It's going to be a very long haul.
3. The other day when I was at the hospital visiting, I ran into one of my old teachers, Mr Casterton, who taught me A'level Maths 16 years ago. More to the point, he recognised me, remembered my name and everything, whereas I had absolutely no idea who he was until he told me! In my defence, I was caught off-guard when he addressed me by name and had to run through a whole gamut of possible associations (someone I'd met at the hospital while visiting, someone from work, someone from a previous job, someone from uni...) and just hadn't got back as far as school before he reminded me. I knew who he was once he told me and then it was obvious, he hasn't changed that much. Clearly neither have I!
4. I bought a new telly this week. It's a lot smaller than my old one, both in terms of bulk and screen size, but is nonetheless a decent enough size for my needs, plus has all the mod cons I've been lacking all these years like wide screen, built-in freeview capacity, etc. The old one was a good TV in its day, but was donkey's years old, was already third hand when I was given it, was ridiculously bulky and heavy, has been dropped at least once, was not wide screen so cut off the edges of most shows as they are nearly all filmed in wide screen these days, and the picture quality was starting to deteriorate. Definitely time for a change. The new one turned into a bit of a saga, however. I got to the shop just before it closed on Tuesday and found one that I liked, but they only had one left, which was the display model. Since there was a discount on it because of being ex-display I was satisfied with that, bought it and took it home...only to find that they'd given me the wrong remote control for it. So, back I went to the shop again last night. They couldn't find the right remote control for my TV, although they did find the instruction manual, which is useful. But then they found a remote control for a Ferguson TV which is identical to the one I needed for my Toshiba TV, so they gave me that instead, and it works perfectly. Problem resolved - but what a faff!
5. Chelsea turned 15 last Saturday. How did she get to be so old! She remains extremely challenging, although her behaviour tends to fluctuate wildly depending on who she is friendly with at any given time. She just can't reconcile her own personality with that of a close friend, so instead of just being herself she takes on the personality traits and attitude of whoever she is closest to at the moment. And some of the kids she hangs out with are little horrors. She gets herself grounded on a regular basis, and those periods always come as a relief as she turns into Chelsea again, once separated from those external influences. Life with her is always going to be a rollercoaster, I suspect. I just hope she settles down a bit once she is past the turbulent years of adolescence.
6. Stuff continues to go on with the Cornwall crowd. Shanei went home to visit over Easter and came back saying that her mother had been snorting cocaine in front of her and was possibly also dealing drugs - although Nei does lie, so it is hard to know how much of what she says is true and how much is exaggeration. Also, it seems there was a case conference for the children last week and the mother well and truly went down in flames at it, admitted taking heroin and declared that she never wants anything to do with her f-ing children ever again, she hates them all, etc. Nothing she hasn't said before, of course, but this time she said it in front of the headteacher, social workers and police. Plus she has been posting pornographic images of herself on facebook for the whole world to see, including her children. Shanei has been bullied in school because of it, and probably the younger children too. A residence hearing has been called for later this month - and about time, too! I can't think what social services have been thinking, letting this state of affairs continue for so long. Hopefully sole residence will be granted to their father and the injunction against taking them out of Cornwall will be removed, so that D&R can help out more again.
7. Work continues busy, since I am now doing Sarah's job as well as my own. I met up with Sarah and baby Holly for lunch last week, though, and had lovely long baby cuddles. Holly is now three months old and three weeks past her due date, has hit 8lbs and is finally wearing newborn sized outfits. She is adorable - and so tiny still!
8. My cousin Rachel's new baby, Millie-Rose, is rather adorable, as well.
9. Seem to be building up a stockpile of pics that I really must get around to picspamming at some point.
10. Have booked tomorrow and Monday off work, so hooray for a long weekend - the break is much, much needed! My garden and I have big plans - I'm never going to get everything done that I want to!