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Jul. 22nd, 2016 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsUnsurprisingly it turns out there's no MCR reunion on the cards, but I remain thrilled that we're getting something new. TBP is my favourite album of theirs, so I'm looking forward to seeing what's going on with the reissue. I know in the past Gerard has said it could have been a double album, so who knows, some new songs may appear. Whatever happens you know I'll be buying.
Oh, that reminds me. Brit bandom people who collect Pop Vinyl, they have a sale going on, two for £15 and they have two Gerard's and for anyone else, loads of other figures for that price.
Excellent news about nanna. Getting in touch with social services was very much the best thing we could have done. Since we called and in the space of a few days nanna has been assessed, is getting a key safe fitted on Monday, has a physio coming out to help her regain some of her strength and best of all, is having a team of two carers coming out on a night to help her to bed. This is part of a team set up to help elderly, sick and disabled people get the help they need to stay in their own homes. Initially it's a six week thing, but in that time they'll continue to assess and decide what permanent help she needs.
She had the first carer bed visit last night and said they were lovely ladies, so I think this is going to work. It means she's not feeling like a burden to her family, and the professionals will be there to see her daily and ensure she does get all the help that's out there. For example, they were going to come in the mornings too to do a bit housework, make meals etc but she's capable of doing that for herself at the moment, and obviously wants to hang onto as much independence as possible as long as she can. But if that changes in the future they'll be there ready.
James had good news too. At the moment he does twelve hour shifts three shifts on, three shifts off. With the hour commute either side it means on work days he's just getting home in time to eat some tea before it's nearly time to start getting ready for bed. It's a long time in an intense job and he's been finding it hard for a while, so asked if he could cut the length of his shifts down but work an extra day, and yesterday that was agreed. So in three weeks he'll go onto 9 and a half hour shifts and hopefully the extra downtime will help.
It's a lovely day today so I'm off to have some garden time. We planted cauliflowers in one of the raised beds this year and they've completely failed, so now we have a raised bed with nothing in it but a few sunflowers. So I'm going to plant some of the leftover tomato plants. They may fail too this late, but I might as well try. Better than an almost empty bed, anyway.
Oh, that reminds me. Brit bandom people who collect Pop Vinyl, they have a sale going on, two for £15 and they have two Gerard's and for anyone else, loads of other figures for that price.
Excellent news about nanna. Getting in touch with social services was very much the best thing we could have done. Since we called and in the space of a few days nanna has been assessed, is getting a key safe fitted on Monday, has a physio coming out to help her regain some of her strength and best of all, is having a team of two carers coming out on a night to help her to bed. This is part of a team set up to help elderly, sick and disabled people get the help they need to stay in their own homes. Initially it's a six week thing, but in that time they'll continue to assess and decide what permanent help she needs.
She had the first carer bed visit last night and said they were lovely ladies, so I think this is going to work. It means she's not feeling like a burden to her family, and the professionals will be there to see her daily and ensure she does get all the help that's out there. For example, they were going to come in the mornings too to do a bit housework, make meals etc but she's capable of doing that for herself at the moment, and obviously wants to hang onto as much independence as possible as long as she can. But if that changes in the future they'll be there ready.
James had good news too. At the moment he does twelve hour shifts three shifts on, three shifts off. With the hour commute either side it means on work days he's just getting home in time to eat some tea before it's nearly time to start getting ready for bed. It's a long time in an intense job and he's been finding it hard for a while, so asked if he could cut the length of his shifts down but work an extra day, and yesterday that was agreed. So in three weeks he'll go onto 9 and a half hour shifts and hopefully the extra downtime will help.
It's a lovely day today so I'm off to have some garden time. We planted cauliflowers in one of the raised beds this year and they've completely failed, so now we have a raised bed with nothing in it but a few sunflowers. So I'm going to plant some of the leftover tomato plants. They may fail too this late, but I might as well try. Better than an almost empty bed, anyway.
