Miscellany

A 'Benny Hill' Moment.

All was peaceful in the Man-Cave when I awoke.It had rained in the night. I could hear the sound of slow dripping from the end of Daryl's (neighbour) broken drainpipe into the bucket which he has placed underneath that is now a hatching pool for my mosquito children!I looked at my phone and it was 7.30 am so turned over thinking I had at least another 45 minutes before I needed to get up. I dozed and the looked at the time again. It was 7.50 am. I snuggled down again.I would get up at 8.15 just in time to answer the phone when Transition care rang about today's shower for Dulcie....at least 25 minutes left.I heard a phone ringing....far away.......was I dreaming?......No! It was the phone upstairs......it was 8.25 am!!!!!!"THE PHONE!" I cried.I leapt out of bed. So did Will.....(cue Benny Hill music).We both ran about like headless chickens looking for clothes that would be quick to put on....I did not have my glasses on and everything was blurred....Will was hopping about trying to get his leg into something and I was wrestling with  a t-shirt and the phone kept on ringing......Finally we were both decent but  couldn't find the keys.....we were running about all over searching for the keys...looking under papers, stuffing out hand in pockets....and the phone kept on ringing....."WHERE ARE THE DAMN KEYS?"The ringing suddenly stopped...."Hello?" We heard Dulcie answer.....she had got out of bed to answer it.We still couldn't find the keys.....I ran up the back stairs to see if the back door was open, wondering if Will had not locked it and left the keys upstairs but it was locked so ran back down.We heard the walker trundling back along the hall upstairs....at least she had used the walker and not gone to the phone without it.Will found finally found the keys in the pocket of his black jacket hanging on the end of the bed.We need to get a cordless phone so that we can have one downstairs.......it would help with my blood pressure!

The insulting complement.

"Is this your Grandmother?" Asked Jess, the new girl from Transition Care, this morning.Ooops!It made Will and I feel a bit younger.... 

'M' & 'M' - 'Maleficent' 'Magnificent?'......er.... no!

Our move back down to the man-cave has been fine...although I think I have slept through the light going on a few times. Luckily it shines right on Will so he has woken.Dulcie has been doing really well and has not been getting up as frequently in the night but when she does is managing well. So much so that tonight we ventured out to the cinema, leaving her home alone."You will make sure all the doors are locked," she said.We always do.I did feel uneasy about it all night expecting my phone to vibrate and find a message from Vitalcall to say 'Hurry home.'No message and once home it looked like she had not moved since we left her.We saw "Maleficent"....er....it wasn't very good. Angelina Jolie was good but for me it was her cheekbones that stood out. The more I reflect upon it the more I hate it. The three 'good' fairies were irritating and the handsome Prince looked like he was from One Direction...still I enjoyed my M&M's.

Fair Do's!

A second person has been killed by a crocodile this week in Australia. There was only one fatality resulting from a crocodile attack last year....this year we are only halfway through and there have been 2.A 62 year old man was snatched from a boat in the Kakadu National Park in front of his family. He was on the South Alligator River...which to me sounds ominous and I doubt I would be tempted to go out in a boat on it. Two large crocodiles near the incident were killed and human remains were found in one of them. Some people are calling for a cull...but hang on a minute...if you go where big crocodiles live you have to expect that they might be tempted to have a go at eating you. It's in their nature.This is an interesting website page:[embed]http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/09/interactive-how-likely-crocodile-attack-australia[/embed]They had a shark cull in Western Australia earlier this year after a surfer was killed. Surely that's the risk you take going out on a board into shark infested waters.....Can you really blame the shark?2 people were killed in Las Vegas in a Pizza Restaurant and another shopping in Walmart by a gun wielding couple intent on revolution....now you couldn't and shouldn't expect that.It seems to me we should call for a cull of all those people who have guns in their homes....they are  far more dangerous, and more likely to go berserk...and leave the crocodiles and sharks alone.