So much for posting more often.
My Excuses? (and there are always excuses.....)
#1 Major problems with computer - I'm currently reduced to using arrow keys as a Mouse substitute - and they are NOT!..... So slooooow to get anywhere.
#2 RELAY FOR LIFE - I was foolish enought to volunteer my services as Team Captain for the BREAST group's relay for life team, BREAST BUDDIES. It is great fun but the last few weeks have taken up a bit more of my time.
March 5th + 6th 24 hours from noon to noon.
We had a very successful event, despite a rainy and windy start and our tent's ambition to blow down by Saturday evening. (Help with a ladder and many metres of gaffer tape held us together until the wind dropped in the late afternoon)
Our team based on the group of about 9 women raised over $2000 and managed to find some mad souls to do the midnight to dawn shift.
We ate more than we walked off, with a BBQ dinner, Supper after the candlelight vigil, and nibblies from midnight to dawn.
Jenelle cooked us a sumptuous BBQ breakfast, eggs bacon and sausages, and it was of course compulsory to taste the yoghurt from the Yummy Yoghurt van!
10 cups of coffee from the coffee van kept me going from 9am on Saturday when we put the tent up to after the last pickup of gear at 12.30pm on Sunday. Somewhat punch drunk reeled home to doze the afternoon away on Sunday.
#3 Sister #2 and I are currently doing a "meals on wheels" service to my father who is rather frail after his last stay in hospital. We have to make sure that he's eating something nourishing each day so have to be there for a mealtime. This cuts in to the days quite a bit and he has been assessed to enable us to get more help for him from the Commonwealth Govt aged care package which aims to help keep people in their own homes as long as possible. This could include some day respite care which would take him on outings etc. which at least gives a change of scenery.
