Following my Grandma’s death there were things to be sorted out. My mum spent the couple of days immediately following my Grandma’s death staying at her flat sorting out the will and funeral arrangements. There is, apparently, quite a bit of running around to do. The funeral happened a couple of weeks later.
I think the last time I did a proper update was in September after my visit to see my Grandma in hospital, so I’ll start off there. Please excuse me if I repeat anything I said in that post – I’ve no read it recently.
At the time she was in a ward Middlesbrough. The ward wasn’t the best place for her – there was nothing to do, she was getting bored. Although she was ill she was still basically mentally fit when prompted. Yes, she couldn’t always remember things very clearly, but she was a very clever woman and when we visited as a family and talked to her about things she enjoyed (we did the crossword together, for example), she was fine. On that visit we found some photos from her first wedding in the cupboard and my mum took those with her on the next visit to show her, and she remembered quite a bit about it, although couldn’t remember where abouts in Leeds the photos had been taken. So my mum kept on at the hospital to get her moved somewhere nicer, somewhere nearer home, to the hospital I was born in, the little town hospital in Guisborough. [read more]
I know what I said last time, but all this work’s been getting on top of me. I don’t suppose I should complain really, it pays the bills. Now a few things are coming to an end (and I’ve decided to give myself an evening off) I’m taking an evening off.
The Blood Bowl site is nearly complete — I should have it all wrapped up by next week — which is a relief. It’s been more work than I was expecting in all honesty. I’ve done most of the updates for the theatre school website, but failed to get a ‘quote’ to them before their last committee meeting as I promised. One Flew Over The Cookoo’s Nest has been and gone (you can read a review here and another one here). My dad’s starting up a company and I went to a meeting in York with him and my brother about their marketing and publicity. Actually I had two reasons for going back up north that weekend. [read more]
It may be a day later than I had planned, but I’m on my way. The penultimate train, in fact. I appreciate that for normal people, saying that would be a little strange, but given it takes me 3 trains and two tubes to get back up to my parent’s house, it gives you an indication of just where abouts I am. It is, actually, the most significant train of the trip both size and time wise (although if you add up all the other trains it’s less than half the total journey time). But anyway. [read more]
Well there goes another entry (heh, it seems to be calming to write this from college after exams, lol). I should be in general studies now, but I’m not going to go – my excuse is that I’m stressed about the exam I just had (or something…). That’s one thing that is odd – we don’t have exams leave as such. They decided that they would carry on running lessons up to the exams, but we get the day before any exam off so we could revise. I think generally people are taking that as being ‘it doesn’t matter if you don’t go to lessons, no one will complain’.
Anyway, enough with talk of exams (that was the last entry!). Its spring bank holiday next week, hurrah. It will give me chance to have at least some kind of rest, even if I have promised to go into Age Concern at some point over the holidays (rather was nagged into it by my mother, lol). [read more]