Teaching an old dog new tricks
27 March 2009
My Nan is finding it harder to cope with and take in anything different. It really distresses her as she has nothing to refer back to to try and make sense of what is now happening. Today she was ready and waiting for me to take her to the Post Office to pay her electricity bill. It didn’t need paying; it was a statement saying she was in credit and showing the payments Mum had set up to go out of the bank. Read more
My nan’s dementia and me
19 March 2009
It seems pretty clear, despite our heads being in the sand, that my 86 year old nan has dementia.
Looking back I can see that from our weekly shopping trips it was obvious. She could never remember exactly what she wanted, I had to prompt her to which aisle in the supermarket she normally walked down and the conversation was fairly predictable; ‘There’s a lot of red cars on the road. Is that because they are cheaper?’, ‘How’s Jim? Does he have work brought in to him?’, ‘How are the boys? Are they both at the ‘big’ school now?’ etc
I did two stupid things …
8 February 2009
Firstly I bought some hair dye. That wasn’t the stupid thing though! I haven’t used hair dye since I was a teenager, but fancied a change. I have no idea why, perhaps it’s my age; oh, and the grey hairs that are multiplying might have had an influence on my decision. So whilst at Tesco I saw this Nice N Easy non-permanent hair dye. Now here’s my first stupid thing; I applied the bottle of ‘lotion’ to my head and waited 20 minutes as instructed. No, that’s not really stupid in itself, but after completing the whole process and drying my hair to find not an enormous difference in colour, which was OK because I didn’t want to look like a wannabe WAG, so result achieved. However, this is where my stupidity shows itself. I was throwing the empty bottles and box away and doing my bit for the planet and recycling each bit, when I noticed something int he bottom of the box. It was a bottle of colourant that I should’ve mixed with the lotion, which turned out to be the developing lotion. I had not dyed my hair at all! However, it looked shiny, perhaps due to the conditioner that came with the product that I had managed to apply!Oh, well that will teach me to read the instructions properly next time!
The second stupid thing I did was to try and iron with a normal steam iron. My old faithful steam generator died and I had ordered the Russell Hobbs digital,from Pixmania, but I had a large pile of ironing and decided that I couldn’t wait! I got out my old steam iron and away I went. All I can say was it felt like walking through waist high mud. It was dreadful. The Gods must have been looking down on me and taking pity because part way through the new iron was delivered, just over 24 hours since I ordered it! Fantastic! It was heaven to have a decent iron and see the difference in the clothes once ironed with this baby!
If you haven’t tried a steam generator iron then I urge you to. They make ironing a million times easier and aren’t too much more expensive. Don’t be stupid like me and attempt to iron with anything less!
Things that really annoy me…
3 February 2009
I have had to put ‘really‘ annoy me as to be fair a lot of things annoy me, but the ones that get my goat (or at least today) are:
- My family not putting their dirty clothes in the laundry. Especially after playing sport!
- My family, when they do put their laundry in the washing basket, leaving clothes inside out i.e. as they peeled them off. You know, one leg of the jeans inside out?
- Fathers who ‘on the advice of the CSA’ stop paying maintenance until the CSA calculate the correct amount, but who assure you they will pay any arrears as soon as the calculation is complete. On completion of said calculation they refuse to pay arrears and still think they’re a great dad!!! Meanwhile, Mum has to pay for everything for 18 months and the father doesn’t care as his children didn’t go without. NO THEY DIDN’T BECAUSE THE MUM MADE SURE OF IT!
- Cars who park at the bottom of my road right on the junction, so that you end up in the middle of the road with cars turning into the road almost colliding with you. Goodness knows how no on hasn’t been hurt. Also the cars parking on the junction and on the pavement, so that pedestrians have to walk in to the road. Sometimes the car drivers are so kind that they park on both sides of the road and on both pavements.
This last one has really got to be the worst. It is so dangerous. I complain every day as we walk to the shops. Well, today I have done something about it. I have found here that it is in fact illegal to park within 10 metres from a junction, which these cars do and it is also illegal to park on a pavement. I have emailed the borough council and await their response. Something has to be done to stop idiots parking so dangerously!
As for my other gripes; well, I’ll just keep turning their clothes the right way and have the odd moan. Fathers who don’t pay maintenance I have no time for and won’t waste my breath on them any more. If there were a room 101 they could go there with conservatories! Vile ugly things; both fathers who don’t pay and conservatories!!!!
OMG. I am truly evil!
3 February 2009
I have just watched this clip of people in the snow and ice at London’s Waterloo Station yesterday. Oh, how I laughed! I know I wouldn’t laugh if it were me, but whenever I see someone fall I can’t help but literally laugh out loud and am regularly reduced to tears.
I am currently loving Dancing on Ice and am only disappointed that no one has fallen apart from Donal’s stumble last Sunday. Todd Carty’s, erm, ’stumble’ a couple of weeks ago was hilarious though, only spoilt by not seeing what actually happened as he flew down the tunnel. I’d love to see a shot as he came hurtling through!
My other favourite is Total Wipeout. It’s when they try to go over the enormous bouncy balls. I really couldn’t care who wins, I just watch to laugh at the falls!
Is this normal? I suspect not and that I really am evil in taking pleasure in other people’s falls!
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