neighbours kids and balcony

these little poppets are our neighbours downstairs. they came up to see my electric guitar. they put on fancy dress specially for the occasion :-) we had  a lovely time. i feel very privileged that the boy, Ewan talks to me. for a long time he had problems with eye contact - still a bit reticent.  i don't push him, i wait for him to come to me, which he does,  so i feel very privileged to get a smile. while i played my guitar he strummed away on his. i did tune it a bit so it sounds a little bit less horrendous when i hear it through my bedroom floor !
joanna and i sang in canon a bit for them - our party piece, and they were so chuffed to manage frere jaques all together as a round. took me ages to get to sleep after - tired but wired. still, nice to feel rough cos of something nice that we did voluntarily rather than for something grot that happens at us.

these are a few pics of the state of play on the balcony.didnt have a lot of success with the seeds i planted earlier so i finally managed to get in a few more. but one cucumber plant is doing well. :-)  i think seeds probably need more looking after than i can give them rather than just sticking them in and leaving them to do their best.


don't know who's going to be at our case conference on the 19th. neither of our drs can make it. and the home help agency is going through a rough patch. now it's 2 of the home help organisers who are off sick with stress or something similar. changes imposed rigidly, without consultation, pushing anyone good towards the exit door ..... is it just incompetence, or do they really want the association to go to the wall but dont want to take the blame for closing it down ? what one earth is such an important service doing in the hands of a voluntary body anyway ? !!


hope you dont get too irritated reading this. struggling a bit with writing again. glad this has an english spell check, i keep writing in anagrams.   the ideas come out better in writing this diary than attempting to say them or even write them in letters.

and here is my latest little effort - learning knotted cretan stitch no less.