Visiting old friends

What a surprise when an old OD friend on instagram told me OD was back!

Well hello!

I don’t see many of you here.

Personally the subscription is enough to put me off but it’s nice to have a month free and rekindle, even ever so briefly, old friendships.

I don’t see an add media box above my tool bar…sigh…I’d love to add a photo of my stunning children. I’m officially the shortest in the family.

More news in brief to fill you in on the last few years (oh my, time has flown):

• I’m still happy (and sane) and working – full time at present and so I have little time for diaries.
• My daughter-in-law has moved out and remarries next month.
• My son bought her share, and so my two youngest and myself rattle around in a 7 bedroom house.
• We’re doing an air bnb in the unused half of the house, and of course, friends and family use it frequently.
• The garden is still largely undeveloped but I hope to start working on that soon.
• My dear mother died of cancer a year ago. I nursed her here at home. It was a difficult but extremely rewarding experience that drew our whole family together. The coffin was home made and hand painted by us. We never engaged a funeral director. I was fortuante to have 8 weeks off work at the end, and enough paid leave accrued to afford it. I would absolutely do it again.
• I’m fortunate not to do shift work anymore. I work as a clinical midwife specialist in lactation and have normal hours…but I still have bad sleep habits, and I’m still trying to change them.

Drop me a note if you find me. I’d love to hear how you are.

Elfin.