crises

oh dear, i've had to call the land lord to come - i was unblocking the bathroom sink, as i have done so many times before, with a wire coathanger, and i have got it wedged in the plug hole. how awful - but how funny !! he's coming tomorrow. till then we have a blocked sink and a big piece of wire sticking up out of it - looks vaguely ridiculous.

caught up on some of the jubilee concert on you tube. sir cliff sounded a bit rough, but he can still run rings round his contemporaries. i love the song congratulations - we used to sing a version of it with the cssm on cromer beach. very happy memories.

the french press were impressed the day before that we were determined to party despite the rain.

today i've started the day with 2 crises before breakfast. tommy had diarrhée twice on the balcony. and joanna woke up more tired than when she went to bed and with extreemely sore skin and needed help with her bath. and have had to send the prescriptions back to the pharmacy cos they missed off a couple of items. all in a days' work ..... so i'm blobbing here a bit before dealing with more photocopies and paperwork. i calculated we've spent well over £500 in the last decade on photocopies and printouts for our dossiers. 


had an avocado pear with my breakfast. delicious. there is something in avocados that seems to be dialling my number this year. could be in the oil or a vitamin. ruth has the same with mussels. i'm sure they've got something good in them.


it's midday on the first wednesday of the month when they set off the sirens. so tommy is standing on the balcony doing his wolf ancestry howling bit. rather virile, but doesnt quite fit with his fluffy old man image. 

endives wrapped in ham in white sauce for lunch. and enough left over to heat up another day cos not something the girls can eat. our wednesday lady makes us a huge pile of pancakes. the rest of the pile sits in the fridge and they make a healthier snack than shop biscuits. making pancakes soothes our helper when she is having a grumpy day. she used to work in a cafe making crêpes and liked it and we sometimes hear her humming.

sign we saw !

jewelery holder joanna made with old left over bits of barbies :-)