Morning all,
Your suggestion about varying the days we visit is a really good one, 2jays - I doubt I would have thought of that, but you are right. Ouch on the knee - I hope that's eased for you today - and I am so sorry that thoughtless idiot upset you
I would have been livid too, in your shoes xxxxxx
I had a parent like you and Red, too - my mum, going ballistic and ranting over her daughters either living in sin or getting pregnant before marriage. It later emerged that she had never married Step-Dad number 1, who is the Father of my two younger siblings
Bless your OH going to get your Fathers' ashes, Red - I understand why it would have been hard for you to face. And I don't blame you for the rant at the skies - again, the two younger siblings here were always favoured - though the youngest sister did lose the favoured status once she made it clear to Mum that she didn't appeciate the awful way Mum treated the rest of us. Mum then started treating her the same way as she treated myself and my two 'full' sisters
I also like your Mum's response, Amy
I don't know when Mil last voted, certainly not since she moved in with us. For maybe 12 months (or maybe more) before she moved in, the delusion/belief that Maggie Thatcher was still Prime Minister was fairly constant with her - to the extent that she several times deliberately missed paying her council tax, in the belief that it was the poll tax and she was protesting (Odd - because when the poll tax actually was in place, she moaned like mad about it, but still meekly paid it every month!). She was unable to identify virtually any politicians for at least the last year she lived in her own house, and often got Irish politics of her youth completely mixed up with what was happening in the present - both OH and I felt that she was sadly really not able to understand the policies and choices that were there
She identified Boris Johnson as the US president and David Cameron as that 'awful film star' when she saw them on TV not long before she went into hospital - which I guess more or less proved the point!
Ouch notsogooddtr - hope that you are not in too much pain with your 'bashed' knee, either xxxxx
{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}} for you too, Spamar - why are people so darn thoughtless
Slugsta, how annoying about the hearing aid! Such a fiddly little thing to find, too. By the time Mil moved in here, she had lost several pairs of glasses. We took her to the opticians and cataracts were identified, but an op ruled out. We managed to find a couple of pairs of her old glasses - which she only used for reading anyway - and had a few weeks of constant searching for them, because they were so often lost. Then she started to refuse to wear them, even when we could find them, saying she didn't need them. In the end, we gave up - and to be fair, she actually seems to manage fine without them.
Didn't manage to get to see Mil yesterday - basically, I just ran out of steam! Monday, and the 15 hour day spent in travelling to and attending a meeting in South Wales had left me shattered, and then first thing yesterday morning I had an event at the local uni to attend. Both Mondays' meeting and the uni event threw up a lot of admin for me, and by the time I finished dealing with that, I was done! Today, I'm off down the coast - and such a nice day for it, with howling wind, freezing rain and sleet
- and having just checked my train tickets, I've discovered that I've been a complete numpty and booked my return train for a whole hour later than I needed too - no idea how I managed to read 16.49 as 15.49
- so won't be home until around 6pm instead of 5
Tomorrow, I have to possibly arrange travel to yet another coastal town for next week, and also definitely book travel for a half day in Birmingham, as well as attend another event in a local college, plus go to collect paperwork from another local organisation. I'm going to try and see her tomorrow, but I think its more likely to be Friday that I next get a chance to visit her - Saturday is out because there is another college event that would be good for me to attend, that I'm going to. Its absolutely manic at the moment - which is interesting and good in terms of work - but boy, I'm shattered!
Right - better go jump in the shower before youngest is up - have a good day everyone xxxx