Walk and acquisition

The Isle of Arran with the Clyde shining

Marsh marigolds

Young beech leaves, just the right time to make Noyeau

Wood anemones..did you say them as Wooden Enemies first?!

Gean..wild cherry blossom

Blackthorn...hoping for sloes

Celandines 

 

Not sure what this is called....Garlic mustard?

I was pleased that our usual walk still only took an hour... after such a long break I thought I would have been slower.

Then yesterday I acquired a "new" lawnmower for £10.....

Job done, what grass there is is tidy and the compost heap has just enough for one layer.. exercise done and no fuel used!

Paperwork proceeds slowly...but Pirate is now accepted by the Glasgow medical school for research... carrying on helping folks as he did throughout his life.

I have the unenviable job of searching through his papers for photos and matters for a display and for use in a printed item...his Celebration day in Kent is in just under a month...so I need to get on with RSVPs....and up here we are arranging his usual big birthday ride...which he had every five years!

He had been aiming to have a Possee party in Kent in May, then his birthday celebrations....just a pity that he ended in a rush and couldn't make these in person..but his spirit will be there at both.

Eventide

first from the front..the hill in the background is actually the Northern end of the Isle of Arran by Lochranza.

Then the moon rising from the rear of the house.

 

After the rain, a breath of fresh air

 

It has been mostly a beautiful week..a relief to get out and relax between carrying on with the tidying and sorting that we started having a real push on two years ago.

Steady progress, no rushing..the worn out shoes...the piles of till receipts...I'm glad that we had started already as doing this from scratch now would have been hard.

Then late this morning until mid afternoon it gently rained...and now it is warm, the clothes are out on the line and birds are singing.

I have met with friends at the coffee stop at the end of their cycling club run yesterday..all twenty! But they split into two groups to make it easy for other traffic and also the ability and fitness of the two groups.

They always meet at the end...which makes it easy for those who miss the run or just want to catch up with friends.

Now I have a relatively tidy living room, the next job is to sort photos and cuttings.

I need to get proper acid free albums with Glassene (sp?) between each pair of pages..

And when the mammoth job of sorting Pirate's photos has been done..I must stay on a roll and do mine!

One thing that I will do is scan all the photos and email them to every family member so that everyone has a copy Then keep the originals together in one archive instead of splitting up the whole.

Gone

 But never forgotten, our Pirate, Victor James Possee, "Vic", Man of Kent.

17 July 1939 - 15 April 2024

Always thinking of others...Caring and Sharing.

With our Fife friend who has with others been going above and beyond to help us both.

Getting help.

 Pirate is now in a palliative care assessment bed in a village ten miles from here...much happier as it doesn't feel like hospital.

Hopefully they can rehydrate him and get meds into him....then we will see.

Probably two weeks there.

Once there he had charmed the staff...and he hasn't lost his sense of humour!

A couple of friends who are also cyclists have rallied round to help us both.

Hopefully I can sleep tonight... shouldn't be too difficult as I am tired!!

Pirate

 As ever. On the phone, a few days ago.

Our Fife friend, his mate, his Bro...is with us to help. 

Our District Nurse calls every day.

We are still here

 I discovered yesterday that Avus is no longer with us in blogland or real life.

Sad. I miss his blog, and his daughter used to do a picture a day blog from Australia...I miss that too.

Pirate isn't too good at the moment. Reality is sinking in and he isn't a happy bunny.  He has had a life if being put down and his efforts belittled..now he is worried about being a nuisance and no good for anything.

He is doing marvellous things, encouraging people on the phone if not in person. He has just had a FB. Video call from a good friend north of Brisbane..you don't get that without being worth it.

I am doing my best to keep ordinary things going. And Fife friend will be back over again late this afternoon to help him and give me a hand too.

Like Pirate, he lost a brother at this time of year, so he finds it hard. Unfortunately he has been brought up not to show it.