Going Gently

Hydrangeas

I’m busier than ever. Counselling day on a Wednesday has stretched from 9 am to after 6 pm and although I’ve had adequate breaks in between clients , it’s been hot and humid work today, brightened by an appearance by Chic Eleanor who like me is now a sessional counsellor for the charity.

I missed Roger and Mary meeting trendy Carol’s new puppy Gracie.

Apparently it was Mary who was gentle and accepting.

Roger was just, well……fucking baffled

He really is a big girl’s blouse

Before melting on the couch . I picked some early hydrangeas

And noticed just one 🐈‍⬛. In the cottage

All all is right with the world

A Cat In My Underpants

I haven’t much news today .

The pre dusk has found me sat on the loo listening to David Sidaris on radio 4

An older man pants around my ankles, with a small black cat curled up inside my boxer shorts

What a catch.

We all have funny little habits don’t we?

I still hum camptown Races ( doo-dah, doo-dah!) when brushing my teeth

I laid down in the front garden to cloud watch but only for 30 seconds as there were no clouds to be seen and the ground was far too hard given the hot weather .

I was disappointed

I didn’t finish my counselling notes

I didn’t start them

I only person I spoke to was the German by video

I thought a lot about just why Sam Neil has been missed so much

He was everyone’s dad

Ann Widdecombe’s death was so sad and pointless too.

I’m staying home more since the catheter insertion and I know I shouldn’t

Trendy Carol has a new puppy, a fox terrier, Gracie , who is adorable .

Roger meets her tomorrow

Kelda Manley has fostered some injured herring gulls

The Rectory garden Party is all set for Saturday

Sam Neil

Fire

Across the bay from the hospice is Conwy mountain and beyond that is Sychnant Pass. Today a large mountain fire has raged and I stopped on the way to work to photograph it.

Villages and farms have been evacuated today in scenes not unlike the ones from Spain

Song

Two very different pieces of music , the first is husband and wife Suzi and Giuseppe,sharing a sweet duet the second is that old Welsh Welsh trooper Bonnie Tyler. I saw her at the City Hall Sheffield in 1989

What a gal

11th July 2018

Facebook reminded me of 11th of July 2018 . It was a selfie I took on the day my husband collected his belongings from Bwthyn Y Llan. The dogs and I walked up the Gop to be out of the way and although it was warm , Mary shivered in the wind so much that I shared my hoodie with her as she gazed across the valley

Enjoy The Chaps Choir

Rip Her Bra Off!

Well even hospice nurses need resuscitation training.

And today was the day.

I learned two things this afternoon that I didn’t know previously

Women fair worse in resus scenarios because their boobs get in the way
And most modern defibrillators will digitally record sound the last arrest situation they are used in ,

Both interesting facts to know eh?

A nursing sister I knew in Sheffield often recalled the time she fainted outside Cole Brothers in Barker’s Pool. She regained her senses just in time as an over enthusiastic first aider was shouting to a fellow helper

“ Quick Rip her Bra off! “

This story always tickled me greatly and I recounted the story to my colleagues, much to their surprise

I will leave you with some late entries in the wall art exhibition