Bits of News

Michelle
Michelle has just worked a 48hr shift. She is ill and has a sore throat with very swollen glands (she looks like a hamster) and a temperature. She has been taking aspirin so that she can work. She loves her job and doesn't want to let her colleagues down. She came home and slept all afternoon but is due back on duty tomorrow at 12 noon. I've advised her to consult her GP.

She has been continuously employed for over a year now, and is really happy in her work. She starts training in October.

Richard
It is Richard's birthday on Thursday 6 September. He invited us for dinner the other night while Michelle was at work. Wendy spilt her spaghetti bolognaise on his sofa and beige carpet. He wasn't upset and just dealt with what needed to be done in the way of cleaning up. Wendy was holding her foot up for him to wipe as she hates being messy like that. Look at this photo and remind yourself that Richard is a bachelor who has never had a child.



Nigel
Nigel started College today. He will go on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. He was given his certificate for his last course today. He is doing well.

Caelyn
Caelyn went to College for her formal enrollment today. She will be in college on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so the only childcare problem will be on a Wednesday. Her friend Rachel very kindly looked after Wendy today while Caelyn was at college.

Wendy
Wendy will go to a creche on Wednesday mornings. I will pick her up at lunchtime and take her home and look after her during the afternoon. She hasn't been too well - diarrhoea, whingy (which is unlike her) pale with dark rings under her eyes. It may be teething troubles as she is dribbling too, but Caelyn intends to take her to the GP because she is regressing a bit. She isn't really talking much in clear language but she is doing high speed expressive babbling. Or perhaps she is picking up on her parents anxiety. Like many young couples, they have financial worries, so she could be picking up on their mood. Who knows? It would be just as well to take her for a checkup because she isn't herself. Here she is, cute in her indoor tent



Sean
Sean is back from France. He had a lovely time with Bobby and Lisette, and its great to have him back in England.

Melanie
Melanie is not finding it easy to run a houseful of messy males while jobhunting and feeling ill. She has CFS and she physically can not cope with all the "oughteries" that beset a wife and mother. I know how she feels. I've often wanted to run away from home. I wonder how many other mothers feel like that from time to time?

Josie
Josie has been meeting with other people who are going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. They met in Oxford yesterday, to get to know each other. Going to the Holy Land has been a dream of hers for many years.


Stephen
Steve is enjoying life in Australia and has a huge garden. More of a smallholding. His wife Margaret sent me beautiful photos of the wallabies in their garden and of brightly coloured parakeets coming to their verandah for breakfast.




Beautiful! Lucky Steve!!