Eventide

first from the front..the hill in the background is actually the Northern end of the Isle of Arran by Lochranza.

Then the moon rising from the rear of the house.

 

After the rain, a breath of fresh air

 

It has been mostly a beautiful week..a relief to get out and relax between carrying on with the tidying and sorting that we started having a real push on two years ago.

Steady progress, no rushing..the worn out shoes...the piles of till receipts...I'm glad that we had started already as doing this from scratch now would have been hard.

Then late this morning until mid afternoon it gently rained...and now it is warm, the clothes are out on the line and birds are singing.

I have met with friends at the coffee stop at the end of their cycling club run yesterday..all twenty! But they split into two groups to make it easy for other traffic and also the ability and fitness of the two groups.

They always meet at the end...which makes it easy for those who miss the run or just want to catch up with friends.

Now I have a relatively tidy living room, the next job is to sort photos and cuttings.

I need to get proper acid free albums with Glassene (sp?) between each pair of pages..

And when the mammoth job of sorting Pirate's photos has been done..I must stay on a roll and do mine!

One thing that I will do is scan all the photos and email them to every family member so that everyone has a copy Then keep the originals together in one archive instead of splitting up the whole.

Gone

 But never forgotten, our Pirate, Victor James Possee, "Vic", Man of Kent.

17 July 1939 - 15 April 2024

Always thinking of others...Caring and Sharing.

With our Fife friend who has with others been going above and beyond to help us both.

Getting help.

 Pirate is now in a palliative care assessment bed in a village ten miles from here...much happier as it doesn't feel like hospital.

Hopefully they can rehydrate him and get meds into him....then we will see.

Probably two weeks there.

Once there he had charmed the staff...and he hasn't lost his sense of humour!

A couple of friends who are also cyclists have rallied round to help us both.

Hopefully I can sleep tonight... shouldn't be too difficult as I am tired!!

Pirate

 As ever. On the phone, a few days ago.

Our Fife friend, his mate, his Bro...is with us to help. 

Our District Nurse calls every day.

We are still here

 I discovered yesterday that Avus is no longer with us in blogland or real life.

Sad. I miss his blog, and his daughter used to do a picture a day blog from Australia...I miss that too.

Pirate isn't too good at the moment. Reality is sinking in and he isn't a happy bunny.  He has had a life if being put down and his efforts belittled..now he is worried about being a nuisance and no good for anything.

He is doing marvellous things, encouraging people on the phone if not in person. He has just had a FB. Video call from a good friend north of Brisbane..you don't get that without being worth it.

I am doing my best to keep ordinary things going. And Fife friend will be back over again late this afternoon to help him and give me a hand too.

Like Pirate, he lost a brother at this time of year, so he finds it hard. Unfortunately he has been brought up not to show it.

Slowly does it

 Pirate had a visit from our own doctor on Tuesday...I can't take her portrait....but she arrived having had a haircut...from long red hair in a plait to a shoulder length bob!! Almost like a schoolgirl, with a leather Gladstone Bag!! She drives to work in this....

And in her time off rides a Clydesdale horse!

She approved of the medications regime we now have...and the way I have made a list to tick each dose off...a good way to keep track of that.

Our Fife friend came to stay on Wednesday, the idea being to help me in the garden...and it showered all day....with rain in between!!

Not just that, but first thing I realised that we had a gas leak!! If course within an hour then gas was officially turned off.....

We did get the deep beds moved...

Luckily the night was warmer it has been....and eventually I was successful in locating not just a plumber, but one who lives in our village!!

Today, thankfully it was a nice dry day....time join two wind battered polytunnel frames together.

Next step is to find some heavy duty pegs to anchor the frame down...

Under the white cover is the garlic patch, growing nicely thankyou.

It is a relief to get those jobs done, and two of us have done more than twice what I could have achieved on my own. 

Plus Pirate came out to supervise in his FedEx jacket and a beanie, getting some good fresh air, as the plumber and his mate came and replaced a badly soldered joint that had been done a long time ago...and had very very slowly been increasing...

We waved Fife friend off, as our favourite district nurse arrived! It was all go this afternoon.

We have missed her....seen most of the others in our local practice...but she has had pneumonia...so we are very glad to see her back and looking well.

My turn then to have a break...off to collect a new wet and dry vacuum cleaner from the outskirts of Ayr, get a bagful of reduced goodies from a big supermarket then hunt for heavy duty pegs... unsuccessfully....

Nice to have two hours out on my own as Pirate had a well deserved fresh air fuelled nap!