06-09-2022, 04:06 PM
Good afternoon forced rest for a day or two so caught up on all the posts - have lost another of my old favourites to covid - my aunt has now lost her sister a week or two ago her 49 year old son 4 months ago and now her husband of 60 years - the nurses and doctors in our hospitals are just so amazing - My uncle asked to see me so I donned all the PPE and ventured up there - there are patients being left unattended - the nurses just can’t physically cope - common to see them with tears in their eyes or crouched in a corner openly crying .One thing is for sure it will be highly unlikely that a nurse will be available to get Mr P up and working - please someone tell me it’s not the same in every hospital - he wanted to tell me to be aware of the stress Robie is under but I know - he is taking all the crap personally - just a warning there is a tsunami of increases on their way and it’s not the supermarkets- the suppliers are taking advantage of the anti duopoly rhetoric to hike their prices knowing the supermarkets are getting the flack .The government are threatening to take his business and give it to an overseas owner they are welcome to it - wish his Dad was here -
Good news - we have now rehoused 11 families from our breakfast club initiative - the headmasters wife managed to find a property manager to at least look at their applications - some had good references as they had been renting very successfully but the house had been sold but had no luck once they had to say they were in emergency housing .The program on Sunday about the motel in Rotorua is happening all over the country -except the Rotorua motels are cheaper the govt are paying $2500 a week here
My kids bought me a second veggie pod - going to put tomatoes and cucumber and other things that don’t like over head watering .My winter crop is spectacular - the twisted cauliflower are so successful - said on the seed packet the leaves were very pleasant to eat - have to agree .My freckles and drunken lady lettuce are still going .I read that those little patio tomatoes that are often quite expensive can be pruned off down to the last leaves and they will grow another crop - going to try that
Had a laugh about your chair Hunny - the logistics of getting your purchase in can sometimes be a drama - I bought a beautiful cane headboard for the upstairs bedroom in the old house - getting it up the narrow winding stairs was an absolute disaster .My elderly aunt gave me an old 1950s chair - sprung under the cushions with perfect wooden arms for crocheting - when I was shifting it ended up on the truck going to the op shop - threatened to climb up and retrieve it myself so son reluctantly unloaded it - saw one on Trademe in not great condition $1200 .My nieces new husband inherited his grandmothers old nursing chair - she is very trendy with one of those immaculate houses that even the cleaning rags match the decor - she took the chair off without discussion and had it covered in black and white cow hide - she can not understand why he was so upset!
Our Ukranian kiwis are absolutely thriving - helped the oldest apply for a scholarship to Lindisfarne college fingers crossed he is such a gentle soul I worry how he would survive in a huge school .Tough physically but I often wonder what is going on in his head .We were sorting through some of my husbands fishing gear and there was an old Red Cross first aid kit - he absolutely froze- then told me the 5 of them had got separated and were on their own - sleeting and getting dark they heard a vehicle so the girls and Mum jumped into the drain - they saw it was a Red Cross wagon so started yelling and waving - it slowed then sped off - bloody hard to know what to say
Well that will satisfy the naggers I have stayed put for about 30 mins
Good news - we have now rehoused 11 families from our breakfast club initiative - the headmasters wife managed to find a property manager to at least look at their applications - some had good references as they had been renting very successfully but the house had been sold but had no luck once they had to say they were in emergency housing .The program on Sunday about the motel in Rotorua is happening all over the country -except the Rotorua motels are cheaper the govt are paying $2500 a week here
My kids bought me a second veggie pod - going to put tomatoes and cucumber and other things that don’t like over head watering .My winter crop is spectacular - the twisted cauliflower are so successful - said on the seed packet the leaves were very pleasant to eat - have to agree .My freckles and drunken lady lettuce are still going .I read that those little patio tomatoes that are often quite expensive can be pruned off down to the last leaves and they will grow another crop - going to try that
Had a laugh about your chair Hunny - the logistics of getting your purchase in can sometimes be a drama - I bought a beautiful cane headboard for the upstairs bedroom in the old house - getting it up the narrow winding stairs was an absolute disaster .My elderly aunt gave me an old 1950s chair - sprung under the cushions with perfect wooden arms for crocheting - when I was shifting it ended up on the truck going to the op shop - threatened to climb up and retrieve it myself so son reluctantly unloaded it - saw one on Trademe in not great condition $1200 .My nieces new husband inherited his grandmothers old nursing chair - she is very trendy with one of those immaculate houses that even the cleaning rags match the decor - she took the chair off without discussion and had it covered in black and white cow hide - she can not understand why he was so upset!
Our Ukranian kiwis are absolutely thriving - helped the oldest apply for a scholarship to Lindisfarne college fingers crossed he is such a gentle soul I worry how he would survive in a huge school .Tough physically but I often wonder what is going on in his head .We were sorting through some of my husbands fishing gear and there was an old Red Cross first aid kit - he absolutely froze- then told me the 5 of them had got separated and were on their own - sleeting and getting dark they heard a vehicle so the girls and Mum jumped into the drain - they saw it was a Red Cross wagon so started yelling and waving - it slowed then sped off - bloody hard to know what to say
Well that will satisfy the naggers I have stayed put for about 30 mins