General Chat

No,no,no Wend.He is not my OH.He is my dad. 91 and sent home to die four years ago because he was making no progress after a major stroke.

He has not found the time yet. The hospital made the mistake of looking after him but Sharron's not so simple,oh dear no!

I didn't want Andy Pipkin so I kicked butt.

It has been a very bloody four years with many standoffs but it seems to be paying dividends.

Awww, Sharron, so sorry! You sound an amazing daughter though!

That lady who is 97.I don't suppose she is looking for a husband is she?

Hs comes with vegetables,every Harvest Festival.

Don't think she's looking for a toy-boy, Sharron, I'm afraid. She's still very much in love with her OH who died 30 years ago aged 79 (sad face, but there isn't one.)

What she needs is a REAL man.One with his own commode.

I know what there is one.

Think how cool and seductive he can look in the new shades and he has hos own wheels.

How could she resist?

Sharron, yet again you have me in stitiches lol
I am sure you have the makings of a comedy prog with your Dad and his escapades lol

Long may he reign!

Lizxx

lol!


I love reading your stories, Sharron!



at the same time, I really admire you for the stance you have taken, and the humour with which you deal with life.




sylvia

He's down there now telling the getting up carers where he has been.

Out shopping on the other bus today.

I only post all this on here so you will tell me how wonderful I am.Which is,of course,all true.

Actually it was to my benefit to take this stance.Can you imagine being stuck in here with him being bored and needy.Wiping his mouth and pumping food down his peg while he mumbled incoherently.

He was frustrated when he first came home and would be very nasty to me. I explained to him one morning that,actually,I didn't give a flying f**** about him either but life seemed easier if I pretended I did.

Last week he called me a b****** and I called him a c*** in an argument.That was because I tore his winegum packet!

Do not think this is the home of congenial relations. I don't suppose you did anyway!

Ah now there's a solution, Sharron, when he plays up, you can't stick him on a naughty step or he would be off like a shot, so threaten to eat all his wine gums!

You are doing a sterling job - he is obviously determined to stick around as long as is humanly possible just to rile you lol

Lizxx

Eat his winegums?!

They will all be counted. I was probably expected to mend the packet too.

He went off shopping in the next village this morning.Then a roll around our village looking cool in his new shades and directing his mate in the shovelling of horse dung from in the road.

How unlike the homelife of our own dear queen!

lol!


well, life is never quiet for you!


and all those blackberries as well!



sylvia
xxx

Blackberries. Don't talk to me about blackberries.

I had to make some jam the other day just to get rid of some of the bulk consignment in the freezer.

The elderflowers seem to be a bit early this year so, no doubt the bloody blackberries will be too.

Then there are all the beans we will probably be having.

everything is late over here ..... we had such a cold March and April, and May isn't much better!


and it was also so wet that farmers have been unable to get into their fields to plant crops.

Our little home garden is OK, but larger ones have problems.


I think most "crops" (wild or planted) will be around 3 weeks late.

That might work out well for us with blackberries ......... we're away for almost all of July, so there might be still decent ones left in August


OH has taken over making our jams as I find it far too tiring.

He has just put a huge bag of chopped rhubarb in the freezer, ready to make rhubarb and ginger jam later in the year.



sylvia

Didn't he do well x

My kids had a packet of wine gums the other day. they couldn't open them so I said cut along the top carefully to the middle then you'll be fine.......I found the packet later cut nicely along the top then ripped all the way down the middle to the bottom. They wondered why they were all over the floor and the cat playing with them !!
Sounds like your dad at least has the spirit to carry on rather than just sit and stew like so many do. My dad was the same when he had his strokes always trying to get back to his normal self, made even harder as he only had one arm and of course the stroke hit that side of his body.
Long may his rein swearing at you from behind his cool shades =0)

Sharron don't forget to save me some blackberries - please - and ke,ep the anecdotes coming, if you feel like it give the garden gnome a hug for me.
mary

Give him a thick ear for you.

Hoping his birth certificate comes today, then I have told him he is going into town to get his bus pass.

There are still plenty of blackberries in the freezer which he says he doesn't like.I think it is the pips that are the problem.

He was very well behaved yesterday which was surprising considering the weather was bad and he couldn't go out to play. He did wash up after I had made the leftovers pies mentioned on the other thread,without even complaining.

Has he turned into an amenable old gentleman I ask myself or is it just another devious device to catch me unawares!

This one do for a start?

Spot on Sharron, poor Fred, laughed out loud about
the bus pass again :-D

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