did a late night dash to Dorset in the pouring rain on friday night, with dad using his phone the whole time and overtaking on blind corners... was so brilliant to see grandma, I went and did meals on wheels with her on saturday which was pretty exciting, she's 85 and she still takes people their meals on wheels, some of them are much younger than her. went to see grandpa, who is ding really well, and eating and is so so so much less mad than everyone else in the care home. One lady sings 'how much is that doggy in the window' all day, even the sunday before when they'd had a church service, it was all she could sing, (although to be fair, when they gave my grandpa the communion wafer, he'd asked for another biscuit!) one guy, Ron, is totally trapped in a scene of his former life, he thinks he's in a train station and makes you participate because he grabs you and tries to buy a ticket and shouts at you to open the office and stuff, he was calling me June the whole time, another lady just tells everyone to shut up, and hits her bowl with her spoon over and over again, and another just shouted 'help' the whole time we were there, about 2 hours. The rest are quite paralysed, or asleep. It's very hard to imagine being stuck in a moment from your life. I was thinking, I wonder if June, or Henry, or these other people that Ron shouts at have any idea the impact they must have had on his deep psyche, or are they people he barely knew who for some reason are just stuck in that bit of his brain which is active?
watched all the usual stuff, x factor and bits of stricters, dad left on sunday and almost immediately grandma fell over on the garden path and really hit her face so we took her down to a&e, where we spent most of the afternoon, and grandma got very impatient to leave, we held her down and she was looked at very thoroughly and deemed to be okay, but to expect headaches and a huge shiner, both of which she got in abundance over the next few days.
went to see grandpa again, with chloe this time, she was also very happy at how much he's improved compared to when he was in the hospital and they had simply drugged him into a stupor, he's lovely, and so loving to grandma, Ron was going crazy and being really aggressive that day and grandpa was sticking up for everyone. The staff all love him loads, cause he's so well mannered and charming. I love him loads and loads and loads. We fed him some choc and went home to relax.
Grandma was getting delivery of a very old labrador who is was babysitting for two weeks, Murphy, so that added more excitement to our lives, and grandma immediately started corrupting his careful diet by feeding him tea on the grounds that 'all dogs love tea' and lumps of ham. Chloe formed a close bond with Murphy that mainly involved her singing 'i love you' to him while she was cooking but unfortunately culminating in him biting her on the wrist as she tried to persuade him to have a wee before bed :( they made friends though...
anyway. went back to london 1st class (it was cheaper!) which was exactly the same as standard class in all but colour, but was quiet and the seats reclined about 1 1/2 inches.
chloe was on the night shift so i tried to stay awake and watch come dine with me on 4od but caved in about 2am. Got the cach back to Cam which was very comfortable and cost £3 soI thoroughly recommend it. Plus you can people watch all through london.
did nowt all weekend and here i am, monday in wakey!
didn't get the job i interviewed for by the way...so i am back at square 1. applied for about another 10 including Leeds ice rink, gonna apply for tk maxx x mas staff too..... the 2 degree thing is most definitely working against me, the only 2 interviews i've had it's been a real point of tease-making and is obviously a problem. ooohh balls...
my new obsession after Planet Earth is Private Life of Plants, the 90's avid Attenborough sensation, I thoroughly recommend it, even if just to see a caterpillar making a wigwam out of a leaf! bloody amazing!!
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