Sad News for Nigel

Nigel's grandmother, with whom he lived after his mother died, left Folkestone on Saturday. She had lived in the same house for 50 years, bringing up her family there. Her husband, Ron, died there. Nanna is in her 80s and needing more help around the house, so her daughter Valerie found her a place in a nice old age home very near where she lives in Hertfordshire. Kate and Nigel helped pack up the house and had to persuade her that it was safe to bin receipts and bank statements from 1961! It was sad to see her go but it is for the best. All the history with its sorrows and joys associated with that house - well, a door has closed on it forever. Very sad in many ways.


Everyone wishes you well, Nanna dear.


Sean had taken Wendy out in her pram because she was overtired and she fell into a sound sleep very quickly.


Kate and Nigel have had letters confirming that their college applications have been successful and they start in September. Nigel's academic year has just finished but Kate is still going to her Child Health and Parenting course on Monday night, and Michelle is coming to help me look after Wendy while she does it.

Michelle has had some fabulous time with Wendy recently. Wendy is a very active child, she is bright, curious and inquisitive with no sense of risk or danger yet so she needs a lot of looking after. Kate gets tired sometimes (she is a human being, not superwoman)so it helps that Wendy is happy spending time with family members who are happy spending time with her. My Mum says she expects everyone to delight in her and love her because that is all she has ever known. All mothers get tired so Family was a brilliant idea.

Last weekend, Sean and I visited Sylvia and George in Bedfordshire. Brakkie found something to roll in. It looked liked mud but smelled of rotten fish so he was bathed before he was allowed in the car but there was still a lingering smell and had to have another one the following day. It was disgusting! He obviously enjoyed it more than we did.

Internet Access
Our new Internet connection 'goes live' on 1 August, hooray!! We will then be able to keep up with email correspondance and the blog, my health groups, my cats groups.
Also, I will be able to crack on with my online course and create a website about Melanie's wedding.

Melanie and Peter had a New Zealand wedding celebration for all their friends this weekend. She has not taken the job in the interior design shop because the pay is so poor that it wasn't worth the hassle.

Talking of work, Michelle is loving her actual job and wants to study further in that field but they are taking advantage of her again and phoning her on her days off to come in and work. And there is one person who is making her life miserable. We all know this woman - there is one in every workplace. Newly promoted, and hasn't worked out yet that leading the workforce is more productive than driving it.

I have a dental abcess under a crowned molar and have an emergency dental appointment later this afternoon.