Concerned

 

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome to a rather strange kind of day.  It all started in the normal way, you know, got up, had breakfast etc. I went to Tescos as usual for my shopping, got home and was unloading the car when a man who lives nearby walked onto our drive and started talking.

I`ll rewind a bit and tell you a little about him, and I can tell you safe in the knowledge that he knows nothing of computers, nor do the rest of his family and will refer to him  as B.   B is in his late forties and lives at home with his older brother and elderly and reclusive mother.  His brother is the only one who works and still does even though he must be of retirement age by now.  B hasn`t worked in years and cares for his Mother despite nobody having seen her for many years.  Sadly the family have always been a little strange and I do know that they have no entended family.  People have tried to befriend them over the years, my mother being one of them but they didn`t want to know.  B and his brother were not allowed to mix with other children and grew up playing alone in their garden, which must have been a very lonely existence for a young child.  The elder brother has been involved in youth work for many years but B has nothing to fill his time and is incredibly lonely.  Jim and I have always talked with him but B doesn`t have any social skills as such and doesn`t really know how to relate to other people even though he would love to have friends and a girlfriend.

                 

So this was the gist of the conversation this morning, he was very upset that and was asking me for advice.  It`s really difficult and I don`t know what to tell him sometimes, I`ve had a thought that might help him and I wonder what you might think. We have some very good church groups nearby and I thought that might be worth a mention to him.  He badly needs friends and where better a place to find some good people that won`t hurt or rebuff him.  Anyway, later on he put a thank you note through our door , it made me feel very humble because I didn`t do anything, in fact I was as I said, busy unloading the shopping from the car at the time.  I will suggest the church when I see him next and hope it might help him.

Kerry isn`t very happy at the moment.  A couple of days ago she submitted her visa application for her forthcoming visit to Russia and it`s been sent back to her because they`ve changed the criteria and need further documents.  She had already submitted the personnal invitation from MIL but now they are saying they want a copy of her and her hubby`s passports AND a written letter giving her permission to stay at her MIL`s home between the stated dates.  Slava leaves for Russia himself in two weeks time to complete his choreography studies.  Kerry is due to follow on sometime in May for a couple of weeks.  The point is that Slava`s sister is getting married and she hasn`t seen Roman yet, his Mum Nadia and Dad Ivan are really looking forward to seeing their grandson again.  It takes weeks to get mail over here from Russia as everything goes through Moscow so now Kerry is worried that they won`t get their visas in time if at all.

                  

This afternoon Kerry and I went for a long walk through the country lanes with Jake.  Although it`s quite mild today the wind was surprisingly chilly and there was the odd spot of rain in the air, despite that we had a very pleasant afternoon and Jake was suitably exercised even though he was accosted by a menacing looking Dobermann on the way home.  Jim sees this man all the time and apparently the dog is terrified of all black dogs, hmm....could have fooled me, it looked more like he wanted to eat Jake rather than run away from him...lol!  That`s enough from me today, I hope you`ve all been having a really nice day.  Take care and Bye Bye for now. :o)