Thursday, December 22, 2011
Crop Circle Spinout!!
Someone sent me the link to this video, and although it seems almost sacrilegious to do this to crop circles, I found the beginning, at least, really catchy, and wanted to share it with you . . . enjoy :)
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Celebrating Valmae Ackland
Well, with almost 12 months having raced by since my last update, it sure is time for one now . . . and its looking like this is going to be the last one for a while . . . because . . . as you have probably worked out from this update's title, this one is to let you know that Mum left her body, and is now free from any sort of suffering, and happily reunited with all of her discarnate loved ones, including her beloved husband Max.
But before I get to that, I really do need to take a few minutes to fill in the gap a little since the last Blog submission . . . both to honour the friends that have helped make Mum's life as wonderful as it could be, and to thank those people for the love and energy they always gave her so willingly. There were many more than those I happened to take pics of, so if you are in that category, please know that your love and support was no less appreciated than those that are not.
The pic above was from when Mum had a suprise visit from Deanna Stagger, Patsy Hannam, and Lorraine Sheehan on the 10th of April.
Mum was thrilled when a couple of old friends, Shirley & John Poole (above) called in on the 12th of June whilst taking part in an inter-city lawn bowls tournament at the local Atherton Bowling Club.
Mum had several dear friends who visited her regularly, and because of that I usually did not think to take pics of them, but on the 24th June, we had two of them visit at the same time . . . on the left (above) is Delphi, and on the right is Meg. Thank you ladies . . . your friendship and presence in Mum's life made an unbelievable difference.
On 26th July, Mum celebrated her 82nd birthday, and as usual, (above) there were candles to blow out and a cake to cut after our Birthday Dinner at the International Club.
The 26th August saw the return of the Adler Sisters, and this (above) is the third pic (or maybe even the fourth) of this Annual event that Mum loved and looked forward to with great enthusiasm. This great group of siblings usually wore something matching (take note of the decorated tops), but sadly, Janet let the team down this year, and probably has still not heard the end of it LOL!
This pic (above) was taken on the 17th of October when the Steinmanns (Heinze, Miva, & Heidi) brought their latest addition to the family, little son and brother Liam, along to meet Mum for the first time. Mum thoroughly enjoyed the visit.
Five days after this, on the 22nd of October, Mum took her final ambulance ride to the hospital after waking up to an Angina attack, and being unable to alleviate the pain and distress of it via the usual methods of the under-the-tongue nitrate spray and oxygen. She then spent a week in hospital going in and out of the High Dependancy unit, but the combination of her heart simply running out of steam, and the increasing need for pain relief to keep her comfortable, meant that she finally left her body behind for good around 11:00 pm on Saturday 29th October, 2011.
Clicking on the "Celebration Of Life" service program front page (above) will enable you to open or download the full program to your computer.
Like Dad's, Mum's "Celebration Of Life" service was held at the Atherton Uniting Church and conducted by the Church Minister, Reverend Leo Newell. Everyone that I spoke to about it afterwards commented on how positive and uplifting it was.
Also like Dad's, Mum's coffin (above) was white with gold trim . . . but hers was topped with a beautiful spray of mostly pink roses . . . just as she had requested.
One special part of Mum's "Celebration Of Life" Service was a 10 minute video presentation created by my brother Phil, with dozens of snippits of footage of Mum over the last 20 or so years . . . set to one of her favourite pieces of music . . . Strauss's The Blue Danube . . . and now that it has been uploaded to YouTube (above), you are invited to share in these these memories as well.
When the service was over, I was joined (above) by my brother Peter to my right, my brother Phil behind me, Phils son Harley to his right, our Uncle Kel behind Phil, and our Uncle Geoff to his right, to carry Mums coffin out to the hearse which was to take her, once all rituals were finished were said, to be cremated.
This (above) was a special moment with my daughter Sarah, who had been able to make the funeral. My son, Nick, had been in the middle of exams and simply unable to be there with us. Still, he had been able to make Dad's whereas Sarah hadn't, so it all works out in the end. :)
Phil, Shellie, Sarah & I (above) wait for friends and family to join us outside the church for the final rituals.
With the service over, it was a time for everyone to share in a sumptuous afternoon tea and for old friends and family to catch up and reminisce about special times spent with Valmae. Here (above) we see Phil, Roberta, Pete, and Patsy & Chris.
One of the best speakers (I thought) was my Uncle Kel, and here he is (above) with his daughter (my cousin) Susie. They came up from Tully for the day.
The following day . . . with the Celebration over . . . meant some relaxing time for family . . . and some time with my other Uncle who was able to make it, Geoff, and his wife Daphne. Here they are, with Sarah, Phil, Pete, & I (above).
One thing our family is really good at is acting the fool . . . and it can be pretty funny at times . . . and so posing for this shot (above) meant some light relief to the seriousness of the past few days.
And finally (yep, I know, this was a long post with lots of pics) . . . I just had to include one of Pete's wife Barb, who took on the role of photographer for the few days that they were up here from Melbourne, and basically provided me with most of the pics taken of the funeral. Here she is (above) in a great shot with Auntie Daph.
But before I get to that, I really do need to take a few minutes to fill in the gap a little since the last Blog submission . . . both to honour the friends that have helped make Mum's life as wonderful as it could be, and to thank those people for the love and energy they always gave her so willingly. There were many more than those I happened to take pics of, so if you are in that category, please know that your love and support was no less appreciated than those that are not.
The pic above was from when Mum had a suprise visit from Deanna Stagger, Patsy Hannam, and Lorraine Sheehan on the 10th of April.
Mum was thrilled when a couple of old friends, Shirley & John Poole (above) called in on the 12th of June whilst taking part in an inter-city lawn bowls tournament at the local Atherton Bowling Club.
Mum had several dear friends who visited her regularly, and because of that I usually did not think to take pics of them, but on the 24th June, we had two of them visit at the same time . . . on the left (above) is Delphi, and on the right is Meg. Thank you ladies . . . your friendship and presence in Mum's life made an unbelievable difference.
On 26th July, Mum celebrated her 82nd birthday, and as usual, (above) there were candles to blow out and a cake to cut after our Birthday Dinner at the International Club.
The 26th August saw the return of the Adler Sisters, and this (above) is the third pic (or maybe even the fourth) of this Annual event that Mum loved and looked forward to with great enthusiasm. This great group of siblings usually wore something matching (take note of the decorated tops), but sadly, Janet let the team down this year, and probably has still not heard the end of it LOL!
This pic (above) was taken on the 17th of October when the Steinmanns (Heinze, Miva, & Heidi) brought their latest addition to the family, little son and brother Liam, along to meet Mum for the first time. Mum thoroughly enjoyed the visit.
Five days after this, on the 22nd of October, Mum took her final ambulance ride to the hospital after waking up to an Angina attack, and being unable to alleviate the pain and distress of it via the usual methods of the under-the-tongue nitrate spray and oxygen. She then spent a week in hospital going in and out of the High Dependancy unit, but the combination of her heart simply running out of steam, and the increasing need for pain relief to keep her comfortable, meant that she finally left her body behind for good around 11:00 pm on Saturday 29th October, 2011.
Clicking on the "Celebration Of Life" service program front page (above) will enable you to open or download the full program to your computer.
Like Dad's, Mum's "Celebration Of Life" service was held at the Atherton Uniting Church and conducted by the Church Minister, Reverend Leo Newell. Everyone that I spoke to about it afterwards commented on how positive and uplifting it was.
Also like Dad's, Mum's coffin (above) was white with gold trim . . . but hers was topped with a beautiful spray of mostly pink roses . . . just as she had requested.
One special part of Mum's "Celebration Of Life" Service was a 10 minute video presentation created by my brother Phil, with dozens of snippits of footage of Mum over the last 20 or so years . . . set to one of her favourite pieces of music . . . Strauss's The Blue Danube . . . and now that it has been uploaded to YouTube (above), you are invited to share in these these memories as well.
When the service was over, I was joined (above) by my brother Peter to my right, my brother Phil behind me, Phils son Harley to his right, our Uncle Kel behind Phil, and our Uncle Geoff to his right, to carry Mums coffin out to the hearse which was to take her, once all rituals were finished were said, to be cremated.
This (above) was a special moment with my daughter Sarah, who had been able to make the funeral. My son, Nick, had been in the middle of exams and simply unable to be there with us. Still, he had been able to make Dad's whereas Sarah hadn't, so it all works out in the end. :)
Phil, Shellie, Sarah & I (above) wait for friends and family to join us outside the church for the final rituals.
With the service over, it was a time for everyone to share in a sumptuous afternoon tea and for old friends and family to catch up and reminisce about special times spent with Valmae. Here (above) we see Phil, Roberta, Pete, and Patsy & Chris.
One of the best speakers (I thought) was my Uncle Kel, and here he is (above) with his daughter (my cousin) Susie. They came up from Tully for the day.
The following day . . . with the Celebration over . . . meant some relaxing time for family . . . and some time with my other Uncle who was able to make it, Geoff, and his wife Daphne. Here they are, with Sarah, Phil, Pete, & I (above).
One thing our family is really good at is acting the fool . . . and it can be pretty funny at times . . . and so posing for this shot (above) meant some light relief to the seriousness of the past few days.
And finally (yep, I know, this was a long post with lots of pics) . . . I just had to include one of Pete's wife Barb, who took on the role of photographer for the few days that they were up here from Melbourne, and basically provided me with most of the pics taken of the funeral. Here she is (above) in a great shot with Auntie Daph.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Pre-Merry Christmas
Wowwww, this update is really overdue, but I didn't realize just how badly it was till just now (I haven't really wanted to look either LOL!). It's Christmas Day already!!! So although this is a Christmas day update, it will only have things that have happened UP until Christmas. I will do another update soon that will have a report on Christmas Day itself, OK (LOL!)
So . . . in terms of Mum's health, it has been a case of no news being good news, and that is a good thing. Yep, I am happy to report that she continues to cruise along quite able to deal with the pain that does seem to appear now and then in her right (amputated) leg without painkillers of any sort, by throwing it over the side of the bed and letting it hang there. Not totally sure why (though I think it might connected to her kidneys like the doctor does, and this action could open and stretch her abdomen, and allow any gravel there to pass more easily), but it works. :)
She occasionally cancels her weekly trip to the hairdresser due to lack of energy, but those times are quite rare, and she still won't have a TV in her bedroom where she spends most of the time, because she prefers listening to either ABC classical FM or the local ABC talkback radio, or reading. Crosswords seem to have passed by the wayside due to the collection of dictionaries she uses being too heavy to lift and open, and the need to use the internet more and more to find the answers to the clues because the dictionaries dont seem to have them any more, and her aversion to computers LOL! One of the highlights of her day is the board game we play each night. We have a few we can choose from, but we usually play Yatzee. I have to admit, she does have fun and is a better loser than me, but I am working on that. :)
Ok, thats the health report done . . . so now to share some of the more interesting things that have unfolded in my world in the last few months. Ok, it was my brother Phil's birthday on the 6th October, and we celebrated with a BBQ out at the farm. Shellie even went all out and got a professional cake made for the occasion . . . its not hard to guess what one of his favourite past times is . . .
Then, a little over a month later, we had another birthday cake for Alison's 81st birthday.
We celebrated that with her with a birthday dinner at the Tolga Hotel.
Ok, moving ahead in time, we come to a visit definately worth mentioning. Mum really does like people visiting, and every year, one of Mum's close friends, Patsy Hannam gets together with her four sisters (Adler, pre-marriage), and they always come and visit Mum as part of their activities.
And finally, I had to include a pic of a beautiful Golden Orb we have living on our downstairs verandah. She lost a leg sometime in her journey, but she is a real beauty. :)
Ok, thats is for this post. I didn't quite finish it before we headed out this morning for Christmas lunch at the farm (followed by the traditional waterfight with the backpackers from down Channel Road), and so I have had to do it after we returned from out fun-filled Christmas Day . . . but all that we got up to will be included in the next update, and I will do that when I get back from my two week holiday in Victoria. I fly down tomorrow (26th) and return on the 10th of January. Woooooo Hoooooo!!! Ciao for now . . .
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Andre Rieu And 81!
Greetings from torpical North Queensland :). Yes, an update is definately overdue, but I am happy to report that once again, in addition to my slackness, it has also been a case of no news being reasonably good news, when it comes to Mum's health. I say reasonably, 'cause generally, it (her health) has not been as good as it was in the last update. Her right (amputated) leg has been giving her more grief than the occasional annoyance, and has resulted in doctor's visits for the pain on a couple of occasions. He (her doctor) thinks the pain is being referred from her already weak kidneys, and the idea of grit/particles being eliminated from time to time causing the pain does seem to fit with the unpredictability and inconsistancy of the problem.
Sadly, it seems, in her case, that pretty well all medications with serious enough pain reducing capabilities to take the pain in her leg away, also muck (block) up her digestive system, and some, like the liquid morphine variety, result in her throwing up on and off for the whole next day after taking it, so she is often quite reluctant to take anything at all, which results in some nights of very little sleep as she sits up, dangles her leg over the bed, massages it, and does pretty well anything she can think of to ease the pain so she can get to sleep. Occasionally she gets me up in the early hours to heat up a wheat bag which seems to help at times.
But look, I don't what to give you the impressions that life is living hell for her, as it is far from it. The problem really is irregular, and seems to pop up out of nowhere, and no matter how many times Mum thinks she has worked out the problem and how to best deal with it, the next time it occurs always proves her wrong. If you spoke to her right now as I write, she would tell you she is great, because she has just had a pretty good week, and a wonderful 81st birthday (yesterday, 26th), and I am very pleased to be able to share a few pics that highlight this.
I took the pic above on the first time since 2006 that Mum visited Babinda, the town where she and Dad lived for many years, and where my brothers and I grew up. It was also the first time she had been back there since losing her leg, and that fact did evoke some hesitation in her. But the occasion was an extremely positive and uplifting one, and any fear she may have been feeling was quickly melted away by the very nature of the visit.
You see, she had been invited by Dad's ex pharmacist business partner Fred Lizzio, who still runs the Munro Theatre in Babinda to watch (on Sunday 18th July) Andre Rieu (who always makes her feel wonderful) in a live-streamed concert from Maastricht in the Netherlands. Since being badly damaged in cyclone Larry, insurance payouts and government grants enabled the theatre to be repaired/upgraded with all the latest digital projection equipment, and it is now able to show movies in full 3D AND host live streaming events like this concert, via a satellite link.
On top of that, several friends new she was coming and came down to the theatre to see her before the show as well. From left, in the pic above, you can see her friend from Atherton, Meg, who had come with us at Mum's invitation, and then her Babinda friends May Jago to her left, Patsy and Chris Hannam behind her, and Betty and Wes Richardson to her right. Yep, I've written so much about the theatre, you'll probably have to scroll back up to see them . . . LOL! :)
One Sunday later, on the 25th July (the day before her birthday) we took Mum to the International Club in Atherton for a birthday lunch. From the left, in the pic above, we see Phil, Simon, Doris, Alison, Shellie, Harley, who were all there to celebrate Mum's 81st birthday, and the birthday girl, herself. Yep, I'm not in it 'cause I took the photo LOL! Naturally, there was a birthday cake . . .
The following day was a really wonderful day for Mum, as she was inundated with flower deliveries, cards arriving in the mail, a visit from a past Babinda neighbour, Pam Schultz, who shared lunch with us (forgot to get a pic), and a seemingly endless number of phone calls, resulting in her only complaint for the day . . . her hand going numb from holding the phone for so much of it LOL! She wanted a pic of all the flowers and cards so I gathered them all together, and took this one . . .
Well, that's it for this update. Did I forget anthing? Probably, but, you got the best of all that has unfolded up here at the Atherton Ackland's place since the last update, and so . . . until the next one . . . ciao :)
Sadly, it seems, in her case, that pretty well all medications with serious enough pain reducing capabilities to take the pain in her leg away, also muck (block) up her digestive system, and some, like the liquid morphine variety, result in her throwing up on and off for the whole next day after taking it, so she is often quite reluctant to take anything at all, which results in some nights of very little sleep as she sits up, dangles her leg over the bed, massages it, and does pretty well anything she can think of to ease the pain so she can get to sleep. Occasionally she gets me up in the early hours to heat up a wheat bag which seems to help at times.
But look, I don't what to give you the impressions that life is living hell for her, as it is far from it. The problem really is irregular, and seems to pop up out of nowhere, and no matter how many times Mum thinks she has worked out the problem and how to best deal with it, the next time it occurs always proves her wrong. If you spoke to her right now as I write, she would tell you she is great, because she has just had a pretty good week, and a wonderful 81st birthday (yesterday, 26th), and I am very pleased to be able to share a few pics that highlight this.
I took the pic above on the first time since 2006 that Mum visited Babinda, the town where she and Dad lived for many years, and where my brothers and I grew up. It was also the first time she had been back there since losing her leg, and that fact did evoke some hesitation in her. But the occasion was an extremely positive and uplifting one, and any fear she may have been feeling was quickly melted away by the very nature of the visit.
You see, she had been invited by Dad's ex pharmacist business partner Fred Lizzio, who still runs the Munro Theatre in Babinda to watch (on Sunday 18th July) Andre Rieu (who always makes her feel wonderful) in a live-streamed concert from Maastricht in the Netherlands. Since being badly damaged in cyclone Larry, insurance payouts and government grants enabled the theatre to be repaired/upgraded with all the latest digital projection equipment, and it is now able to show movies in full 3D AND host live streaming events like this concert, via a satellite link.
On top of that, several friends new she was coming and came down to the theatre to see her before the show as well. From left, in the pic above, you can see her friend from Atherton, Meg, who had come with us at Mum's invitation, and then her Babinda friends May Jago to her left, Patsy and Chris Hannam behind her, and Betty and Wes Richardson to her right. Yep, I've written so much about the theatre, you'll probably have to scroll back up to see them . . . LOL! :)
One Sunday later, on the 25th July (the day before her birthday) we took Mum to the International Club in Atherton for a birthday lunch. From the left, in the pic above, we see Phil, Simon, Doris, Alison, Shellie, Harley, who were all there to celebrate Mum's 81st birthday, and the birthday girl, herself. Yep, I'm not in it 'cause I took the photo LOL! Naturally, there was a birthday cake . . .
The following day was a really wonderful day for Mum, as she was inundated with flower deliveries, cards arriving in the mail, a visit from a past Babinda neighbour, Pam Schultz, who shared lunch with us (forgot to get a pic), and a seemingly endless number of phone calls, resulting in her only complaint for the day . . . her hand going numb from holding the phone for so much of it LOL! She wanted a pic of all the flowers and cards so I gathered them all together, and took this one . . .
Well, that's it for this update. Did I forget anthing? Probably, but, you got the best of all that has unfolded up here at the Atherton Ackland's place since the last update, and so . . . until the next one . . . ciao :)
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Morning Rainbows
Morning rainbows are a great way to start the day . . . but more on them later, 'cause I want to begin with the usual health update. Mum is reasonably stable and relatively free from any sort of consistent suffering, though she is quite fragile, needs oxygen every now and then, and has had a few angina attacks recently after waking from scary dreams in which she is being chased. Her right leg (the amputated one) was very painful for some reason last Sunday night (30th May), so she had a dose of Ordine (liquid morphine) to ease it (and so had a great sleep as well), but then the next day (Monday 31st) she vomited several times throughout the day as her body attempted to get rid of the morphine.
The same thing used to happen for the first few days of going on, or increasing, her pain patches, as the body is simply not used to it, and so like a lot of the drugs she takes, it always seems to always be a case of weighing up the pros and cons (side effects) of each of them. I put an anti-itch lotion (Animine lotion, with 1% menthol added by the chemist – an old recipe that Dad used to have made up for himself) on her back every night to ease an itchiness which we presume is a side effect of one of the drugs. It always gets worse whenever she goes onto a course of antibiotics for bladder infections, or the like, which happens from time to time.
Still, her suffering is a lot less than when I first came up here, when she had painful ulcers on her remaining foot and was on pain patches to deal with that, and she still has plenty to live for with an abundance of love of friends and family in her world, and lots of interesting conversations/topics on the ABC radio. She does need to rest for a lot of the time, but refuses to have a TV in her bedroom, and she still enjoys getting her hair washed and set at her hairdressers most Wednesday mornings.
Whenever I take her to the doctors for a warfarin level blood test, she also enjoys going for a coffee at the local coffee shop after it, and then to check out if Millers (a dress shop next door to the coffee shop) have any new items of clothing she might like. She even buys some occasionally. Ok, now on to some of the interesting things in our world since the last update. One was a visit by one of Mum's old (yes, old as in age, but also in terms of length of time they have been friends LOL!) friends, Pauline Gilbey (below, with Mum) the Saturday before last (22nd May).
On the afternoon of the same day, we went out to the farm (for a few hours anyway) for a "Boob's Off" party. My brother Phil's wife Shellie goes into hospital tomorrow (2nd June) for an operation to have her second breast removed after the first was removed last year due to breast cancer, and this party was one of the ways she is dealing with the loss . . . sort of looking it square in the eye, not hiding the problem away somewhere, and making as light of the situation as possible. As you can see (below) she had a little help with this . . .
There was even a beautifully made & iced cake made for the occasion . . .
The following day (Sunday 23rd), I took Mum out to the 80th birthday party of another of her friends Lorna Jackson, who is the wife of an old (as in from a long time ago) boyfriend of hers, George. Mum is the one in the wheelchair on the right in the pic below, and you can just see George over to the left reading out the tribute he had written for Lorna to celebrate her birthday . . .
Speaking of birthdays, Shellie had hers last Friday (28th May) and Mum and I took her, and her mum Alison, and her friend Paula, and her son Harley, and DJ, Harley's friend, to a birthday lunch at the International Club the following day. Phil was working and couldn't make it, but everyone seemed to enjoy the food and the company.
And now finally . . . I get to the morning rainbows. Mum's room gets sunlight in the morning, so I have hung my faceted crystal ball in there near the dooray to catch the sunlight as it streams in in the morning and do what it does best - refract it into the room and create little rainbows all over the walls and ceiling. I took a quick video of them one morning, and here it is . . .
And one last thing . . . for those who did not see the winner of the European Song Contest, it's Lena, representing Germany, with "Satellite". It's a bit of a crazy/quirky love song, but this 19 year old German girl sings in English and has the weirdest accent. It's kinda cute, and probably was that "X" factor that resulted in her winning the competition. Enjoy . . . and blessings to all . . .
The same thing used to happen for the first few days of going on, or increasing, her pain patches, as the body is simply not used to it, and so like a lot of the drugs she takes, it always seems to always be a case of weighing up the pros and cons (side effects) of each of them. I put an anti-itch lotion (Animine lotion, with 1% menthol added by the chemist – an old recipe that Dad used to have made up for himself) on her back every night to ease an itchiness which we presume is a side effect of one of the drugs. It always gets worse whenever she goes onto a course of antibiotics for bladder infections, or the like, which happens from time to time.
Still, her suffering is a lot less than when I first came up here, when she had painful ulcers on her remaining foot and was on pain patches to deal with that, and she still has plenty to live for with an abundance of love of friends and family in her world, and lots of interesting conversations/topics on the ABC radio. She does need to rest for a lot of the time, but refuses to have a TV in her bedroom, and she still enjoys getting her hair washed and set at her hairdressers most Wednesday mornings.
Whenever I take her to the doctors for a warfarin level blood test, she also enjoys going for a coffee at the local coffee shop after it, and then to check out if Millers (a dress shop next door to the coffee shop) have any new items of clothing she might like. She even buys some occasionally. Ok, now on to some of the interesting things in our world since the last update. One was a visit by one of Mum's old (yes, old as in age, but also in terms of length of time they have been friends LOL!) friends, Pauline Gilbey (below, with Mum) the Saturday before last (22nd May).
On the afternoon of the same day, we went out to the farm (for a few hours anyway) for a "Boob's Off" party. My brother Phil's wife Shellie goes into hospital tomorrow (2nd June) for an operation to have her second breast removed after the first was removed last year due to breast cancer, and this party was one of the ways she is dealing with the loss . . . sort of looking it square in the eye, not hiding the problem away somewhere, and making as light of the situation as possible. As you can see (below) she had a little help with this . . .
There was even a beautifully made & iced cake made for the occasion . . .
The following day (Sunday 23rd), I took Mum out to the 80th birthday party of another of her friends Lorna Jackson, who is the wife of an old (as in from a long time ago) boyfriend of hers, George. Mum is the one in the wheelchair on the right in the pic below, and you can just see George over to the left reading out the tribute he had written for Lorna to celebrate her birthday . . .
Speaking of birthdays, Shellie had hers last Friday (28th May) and Mum and I took her, and her mum Alison, and her friend Paula, and her son Harley, and DJ, Harley's friend, to a birthday lunch at the International Club the following day. Phil was working and couldn't make it, but everyone seemed to enjoy the food and the company.
And now finally . . . I get to the morning rainbows. Mum's room gets sunlight in the morning, so I have hung my faceted crystal ball in there near the dooray to catch the sunlight as it streams in in the morning and do what it does best - refract it into the room and create little rainbows all over the walls and ceiling. I took a quick video of them one morning, and here it is . . .
And one last thing . . . for those who did not see the winner of the European Song Contest, it's Lena, representing Germany, with "Satellite". It's a bit of a crazy/quirky love song, but this 19 year old German girl sings in English and has the weirdest accent. It's kinda cute, and probably was that "X" factor that resulted in her winning the competition. Enjoy . . . and blessings to all . . .
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