A precious gift
When I opened a parcel last week, there was a lovely handwritten note from Indy, our youngest of 7 grandchildren. He has just had his 9th birthday and is in Grade 3. At this stage, I used to give children their "Driver's licence" to join up their letters and write with a pen. Indy's carefully formed letters seemed to also have some copperplate characters in them! Beautifully done, it said, "Dear Nana, It has been so cold lately. I fingerknitted this scarf and returned your blanket. And I know you like purple. Love Indy xxxoooWhat a great scarf, what a lot of work and what a lucky Nana!!!! Thank you Indy.
A surprise flower
The first of my flowers to come out were the hyacinth bulbs. They gave me a lot of pleasure and their beautiful perfume lasted for ages. When the flowers had all died, I stopped giving them water and put the pot aside. To my great amazement, I found that the pink one had a second flower starting to grow. I cut off the rotting stem of the first pink flower, to give it more room and up came another full sized gorgeous flower.
When all first flowers were out ---- the pink one is at the bottom.
Here is the second pink flower.
A drama
Steve provided some excitement for the neighbours on Thursday, August 15th. After having had a colonoscopy two day earlier, he suddenly developed severe abdominal pain. It worsened rapidly and he had other rather frightening symptoms like a terribly high BP, so I called the ambulance. After a night in hospital, lots of tests and a running river of morphine, the pain stopped suddenly, with no cause being established. Gall stones were found in a CT scan but the doctor felt that the pain was not caused by them.
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