Nearly 40 years.

I am booking a weekend in Melbourne to visit the Mesapotamia and Rome exhibitions and also to see the musical South Pacific for our 40th anniversary in October. Hard to believe we’ve been married for that long. We’ll drive down early Friday 5th October to catch up with Evan, then Sat morning to see the Rome exhibition, Sat afternoon South Pacfic and Sunday the Mesapotamia one. A full weekend.
I’m lucky we have similar tastes, although husband probably could live without seeing South Pacific, although he did enjoy Singing in the Rain when it came to Melbourne.
M finally bought an iPad last week. I find it too small and prefer my laptop, but he’s happy with it. I also signed him up to Facebook so he could keep up with our extended family here and in Scotland. I wish I could find my US cousins on Facebook, but seeing as their name is Smith, not much chance of finding them!
Evan has moved into a house, sharing with 4 other people. I’m glad he moved as it may help him to move on from losing his girlfriend last year. After she died, he went back to living in the same place and it must have been full of memories of her. Being a shift worker, he spends a bit of time alone and I worried about him. But now he’s sharing with 4 trainee nurses who probably work shifts too. At least he thinks they are nurses. No idea if they’re male, female, or a mixture. But I feel much better knowing he’s with others.
My aunt in Melbourne is lingering on, but there’s not much hope for her. The only positive is she is not in pain. She’s my mum’s sister and the last of her family. A sad time for my cousins.
Melissa and Luka are thinking of moving to Jindabyne, which is in the snowy region of NSW. They were talking about buying a house, but I said they should rent there for a full year and then make up their minds. They love snowboarding, but spending odd weekends and weeks there in winter is not the same as living there all year round. So that’s their plan in the future. Sometime next year. The only problem will be a job for Luka in a small town. That will be hard to get.
About 18 months ago my hair changed virtually overnight. I’ve waited since then, trying to tame it and hoping it would revert to normal. But it looks like I’m stuck with soft, floppy hair that just wants to lie around doing nothing. I’ve lost most of the natural wave I had, so I’ve decided to bite the bullet and have it permed, just a soft perm. Next Monday is the day and I don’t know if I’m looking forward to it or not! It surely will be better than the uncontrollable mop I have now.
Winter is hanging on here, refusing to go. We had a turn of really nice weather up until a few days ago and I noticed some trees out in bloom around town. But it’s back to cold and rain again. Soon be spring though.
Husband is still in pain from the fall he took in Melbourne. He has a soft tissue injury to his chest. I guess it will just heal in time. He has another doctor’s visit on Monday and I think they’re doing another test of some sort to check everything is ok. Hard to know how sore it is though, as he does not tolerate pain of any kind without lots of moaning. I have to remind myself to be more sympathetic, as I have a high pain threshold and his is nonexistent.lol
OK I’m off to read some favs.

Bye….