My Prize won for me by Kooka

This is what we won at our church fair. I have waited years
to win this. Mark bought 3 more tickets at the last minute.
It was a bit embarrassing as Mark was asked to draw out the raffle ticket.
To his dismay he said it was his ticket. He asked if he should draw another ticket.
I hoped that he wouldn't draw another raffle ticket and luckily everyone said that he won it fair and square.

This is a picture of my happy wanderer over the arch way. It has taken many years to get to this size. Sadly the flowers are just finishing:



Here is a close up:



This our jasmine at our front door. The perfume is devine. It was here when we bought this place twenty-seven years ago. It has survived all these years despite Mark's heavy handed hacking. I remember when my parents came to visit and were aghast at Mark's handiwork. He wasn't forgiven until after it had started to grow again. ha ha ha lol

When did my daughter become me as the mother?

Role reversal is happening.
Yesterday Helen and i were crossing our very busy road and i said "i can't see the cars coming!" because a 4 wheel drive was blocking my view.
Helen said, "don't worry." I can see," she says grabbing my sleeve. "when i say go, we go!".
Half way across I'm thinking oh my God, i just put all my trust into her hands and hoped that we would get across in time.
When did she grow up? It has happened in a blink of the eye.

Hi everyone,
Been doing the rounds of every one's blogs and just thought I'd give you an update.
My step-mum is alright. She has left hospital after a week there and has gone to a rehab place for about ten days to recover. The stroke has given her a bit of dementia or it could be old age or a bit of both. Anyway apart from that she is going home next Tuesday.
I am having the one day off for a while and was really looking forward to it when the phone rang at 9pm last night asking if i could do the kitchen upstairs tomorrow which is our dementia unit. Naturally i said sorry i can't do tomorrow.
It is cold here so a nice relaxing day inside with the heater on will be nice.
We have been hearing about the fires in California and Australian firefighters are being sent over to help.
Thanks all of you for your concern with my step-mother.

Best wishes Jo.

It is mid-winter here and this is a picture of our wattle tree in full flower.



Also last Thursday I got a call from my brother to say my stepmother had a mild stroke. She had a big stroke 18mths ago so this was not a surprise. She seems ok at the moment and is relieved that she dosn't need surgery again. We don't know how long she will be in hospital. Apparently she fell as she was saying goodbye to her daughter. The nurses think that she had the stroke after her fall.



Hope you all had a great Independence Day!!

Jo.

Hi everyone,
Thought i better put in a new post as i looked and noticed i hadn't posted for 2 weeks. As you saw our cat Polo has been in the wars and now back to his old self asking for food and enjoying being outdoors again. He is not staying out long and wanting to come in a lot during the day.It is winter and being outside is not too pleasant at the moment.
I have been working everyday this week. We have a new c.e.o start last Monday I have only seen her in passing but she hasn't been around to meet all her staff.
On Thursday one of the residents fell over in her room while i was making her bed, i pressed the assist button and waited for staff to come and assist her. I waited and waited called out down the passageway still no sign of anyone and eventually i decided to go to the office and saw the head charge nurse who went down to the resident. At the same time other personal carers arrived and one of them said to me" next time press the assist button" as she looked up and saw the light on said "oh you did". Trying to cover themselves for the charge nurse.

BTW Do you like Polo's mono-brow?

Jo

Polo

Today we took Polo to the vet because he had a swelling on his head. He had fluid on his head from a bite and he had to have it drained. He is back home and well but not too happy about having a collar-buster around his neck.