MAN IN THE MOON

Hello everyone,

Welcome to a much cooler Tuesday.  Yesterday was Jim`s Mum`s 84th birthday and Jim took a couple of photos of them together.  Unfortunately she was not very responsive yesterday but Jim showed her all of her cards and presents.  Jim just chats to her and asks her how she is, despite the fact that she doesn`t usually answer or even recognise him, he just carries on and always treats her the same as always.

Jim told me to use one of the photos of them together. It was a shame she wasn`t smiling yesterday but no two days are the same with her.  Some days she is quite bright and another unresponsive, we just never know.  The care home had made her a birthday cake as they do with all their residents and announcements are made in the newsletter.  Jim could only stay with her for an hour as he was stuck in traffic going there and he had to go straight to work afterwards, but he knew his sisters and nephews were visiting later in the day so his Mum wouldn`t be short of company on her special day.

Jim also took some lovely scenic photos in the park while walking Jake, thankfully the `stick` man wasn`t there and Jake played happily with the other dogs with their friendly owners.  Meanwhile back at home I was babysitting Roman and he was as good as gold for me.  I fed him as soon as Kerry left for her class, and then chaged him and he fell asleep for most of the morning, waking 10 minutes before she arrived back here at 12.30.  This afternoon we repeated our long walk of yesterday, well almost, I insisted on taking the shorter route ( which is still a long way!) as I thought it was going to rain.  It didn`t rain but there was a cold wind blowing and I`m glad a wore my fleecy coat, yesterday I was wearing a t-shirt, what a difference a day makes....brrrrrr.  I love the walks we have because we can have a good old gossip about everything as walk round, Kerry has a very wicked sense of humour and we have lots of laughs.

Jim took this photo of Danny`s girlfriend holding Roman and he was looking at me the whole time!

Jim is feeling very much better today, he has said his headaches have completely gone.  He does seem fine but I`ll still keep an eye on him to make sure he`s being honest with me...lol!  We still haven`t found out what rayfish tastes like. Apparently you have to leave it for 3 days before you can eat it because it has an unpleasant ammonia-type substance that will taint the flavour if eaten earlier, when I find out what it`s like I will let you know.

On Sunday night I thought I`d try to get a decent photo of the moon, for no other reason than I wanted to see what out camera could do.  Here is the result, just a plain moon but clearly visible after much playing around with the edit feature.

I couldn`t see a man in the moon either....thought it was worth a try though..lol!

I`ve finished all of my Christmas wrapping now and I`ve just got a few more to buy. I`ll wrap them as soon as I get them and put them away till Christmas Day.  The main reason I`ve done it all this early is that if I get a job before Christmas, I`ve no idea of the times or hours that I`ll have to do and I`m worried that I won`t have enough time to shop.  This way I`m all done and thats one less worry for me.  Now though, I`ll probably forget what I`ve bought and buy more presents, better make a list while my memory is still fresh.

I`m off now to have some dinner so have a lovely day and please take care.

PURE TRIVIA

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