ABSTRACT THURSDAY

It's not just the “care” wheels that are grinding slowly!  We have lots of courgettes and cucumbers - both long and short - but the tomatoes aren’t ripening that well at the moment either.  Thank goodness we have lots of runner beans and mange tout peas, so I can make stir fries, which are quick and easy!

I saw these tomatoes in a bowl on the worktop this morning that Mr. HCB had picked yesterday so thought before I left at 8 am to come back to Mum’s, I would take a quick pic using my KaleidaCam app.

Mum had a good night, has had a lady carer today who has washed and changed her - she’s had her breakfast and her plethora of pills - and is now sleeping peacefully.

One funny incident - I’ve noticed she hasn’t been drinking her milky coffee so today only made the mug half full then got told off because she couldn’t dunk her rich tea biscuits, so I had to break them in half - lesson learned!

Think I might sit, relax and do some knitting;  I’m still making fingerless gloves in yellow and green - the Wiltshire Air Ambulance colours - ready for a coffee morning on 11 September at The Jovial Monk pub at St Andrew’s Ridge, Swindon.  There is a yellow and green theme for Air Ambulance Week to match the colours of their Bell 429 helicopter and rapid response vehicle and I understand even the cakes will be iced in those colours - so that should look good!

Lunchtime now - so going to see if I can tempt Mum to eat something - but it seems a shame to wake her.

”Too often we underestimate
    the power of a touch,
         a smile, a kind word,
              a listening ear,
an honest compliment,
    or the smallest act of caring,
         all of which have the potential
              to turn a life around.“
Leo Buscaglia

PS Thank you for all your kind comments and good wishes for my Mum, all of which are appreciated very much.