This album contains May's photos. Double click on it and you will go to the online album and can browse through the pictures.
I mentioned earlier that my camera broke. It landed up in the mechanism of the Reclining chair with its lens open. After that there was white light pollution and fuzzy pictures. Then the motor mechanism gave up the ghost. My Mum kindly lent me hers because I feel lost without a camera these days. I managed to access some of my savings (easier said than done) and bought a new one of my own. I read loads of reviews at alatest.co.uk and trustedreviews.com and eventually decided on a Casio Exilim EX-Z1080 You can click on the link to read one of the reviews, but I must say I am pleased with it. It took photos clearly and with good colour so I have had to do virtually no image editing, which I'm a bit sorry about because I enjoy fiddling around in editing programs.
The first photos in this album were taken at Kate and Nigel's new house. Wendy is cutting her 2yr old teeth and was stropping for very little reason. Kate and Nigel were exhausted so my Mum and I tried to keep her occupied. She has great fun with my Mum, and got a mushroom (!!!) to scare her with, pretending it was a snake. The mushroom came from the fridge and was not a wild one. This child has given my mother a whole new lease of life. She is enjoying her so much.
Wendy is lucky to have close bonds with her extended family - a child never has too many people loving her unconditionally. We are all crazy about her and it is interesting to see how she expects different things from different family members. With Michelle, it is rough play. With Josie it is reading, toe tickling and being scared of snakes. With me its comfort, getting tangles out of hair, and changing nappies. She has started clamouring to see Sean and she loves Richard too.
Talking of Wendy and the fridge, Kate was late giving Wendy her lunch. She realised that Wendy was being rather quiet so she went to find her. Where was she? In front of the open door of the fridge with a slice of bread in her hand with a slice of ham on top of it and she was trying to open the cheese to put some of that on her sandwich too! No flies on that girl! She is only 2yrs and 2 months old. That is pretty amazing problem solving.
I hope for every one's sake that these two year old teeth come through quickly. Those guys need a break. Nigel has a big Auto Electrical exam on Monday and it is not a subject he finds easy. He has a lot of studying to do, and he isn't looking well. They have just moved, he has a million things to do, he has had little sleep because of Wendy teething. I advised him to put off his "oughteries" because they will still be waiting for him once his exam is finished. Please say a quick prayer for him. He never moans about being ill, but the most unobservant person can see he is really under the weather physically. Kate too is pale and tired - she too has her studies, housework, Wendy and sleeplessness. This isn't an easy time for them but they are just getting on with things and they aren't moaning.
I had my dental bridge put in on Thursday. I hadn't even known what a bridge was, but I'm very pleased. It looks and feels natural. A back tooth had to be taken out after chronic abscesses ate away part of the jawbone. After it was removed and the socket healed, I went back for an Impression and for the dentist to grind parts of the adjacent teeth away. The teeth he ground he covered with a temporary plastic coat. When I went back on Thursday, he removed the plastic covers and then put glue onto the bridge which consisted of 3 porcelain teeth. The middle tooth is where the original tooth was extracted and the two other porcelain teeth were used to fix it all into place. So the ground-down teeth are sort of 'crowned' and serve as fixing posts for the middle tooth. As I said, it looks and feels completely natural and I am very pleased with it.
Sean is having a dental implant and he is at stage 2. He has had the metal thing put in the jaw and he has stitches in. He has to go back to have his stitches out next week. Then they will leave it to heal up before he has to go back to have the actual implant put in. Sounds scary! He is brave though, and he recovers quickly. Still, I'm glad I had a bridge instead of an implant. An implant is a much bigger deal than a bridge and I'm not as brave as he is.
Melanie in New Zealand is in bed with fever and 'flu. Spare a sympathetic thought for her - she is surrounded by blokes! They bother her so much when she is trying to sleep that she locked her bedroom door. So what did they do? They went round the outside of the house to the bedroom window and were calling "Mum. Mum. Shall I feed the cat?" and stupid stuff like that. I should say that the youngest lad is 16. They are quite capable of working out that a hungry cat needs feeding, that the dishwasher needs emptying etc but do they do it? No. They don't even take her a cup of tea. Poor Mel! Three sons and a husband! Thank God I had girls. I really couldn't be doing with that sort of nonsense. And Mel is so dainty and feminine too. I don't know how she does it. Get well soon, Mellie dear. Perhaps a week's convalescence at a Convent guest house would do you some good. The nuns are very kind and restful and the charge is minimal. They are very good news for mothers with shattered nerves and an abundance of blokes in their lives.
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