Weird why can't I access my other blog, Mush, Gush and Trash. Technology seems to be slipping away from me as my smartphone suddenly morphs to only offer voice rather than keyboard and the games I am trying to teach my student are invisible until a Flash of inspiration strikes. Unlike a lot of younger people I can neither intuit what I am required to do or work at it till I can work out the solution. I just meet a brick wall. So whilst I want to write in my other blog I cannot.
So what was my grandma doing mid April? Recently having been to Wales and not even having been able to climb a hill suddenly age seems real and threatening. Her constant worries about her health suggest for some older people this can be the theme of their later years, but she actually worked till she was 70 and despite a lot of problems only really seemed to need help in the last couple of years of her life.
April 62 16th Started at Steinfields all day not bad tiring!! hospital evening. home 9 pm, Tuesday 17th 1 - 5.30 underground brokedown - had meal in town then hospital telephone Win. Home 9 pm tired.
April 1968 17th Wednesday Cistitis!.! 19th Friday started on upstairs kitchen. 22nd Monday still not feeling good.
April 75 16th Sunny and fairly warm. 17th S. Studies. 18th Len starts holiday.
April 76 14th Wednesday Easter card from Jennie. Saturday 17th Y,J and Jennie at Thurlestone. Monday 19th Card from Y.
April 77. 14th Thursday S Studies Po Film and lecture! Bright sun cold wind. 15th Friday letter from Helen re coming May 27th - I will be away then. shopping Portsmouth. 16th Saturday up 7 am some sun but still wind cold - library am - wrote Helen. Letter from Elsie. 17th Sunday wrote and posted letter to Helen and D and F, wind not so bad sun, sat watching bowls afternoon.
April 78 17th Monday bad night sick 4 am made tea! awake 7.30 back bad- hot bath Dr 3.0 Albert there! back trouble muscular. Ethel came evening. 18th Tuesday Ethel called Flowers from her and Laura.
April 80. 17th Thursday letter airmail from Helen - Germany not Gibralter - Cologne. She is very thrillled, has no Germany but has done interviews Forces (Built) station radio. 18th Friday. After 9pm Jennie telephone just back from Germany not near Helen - Hannau? School party town twinning!! Three weeks !!!Jeff did not get to France because of business. 19th Saturday cold little shopping fed up.
I find it very poignant reading what she says but I also am finding she is helping me remember things for example that I had originally planned to go to Gibraltar with BFBS, but I did not know my sister had gone on a school trip to Germany and I am not sure what this S.Studies is that my grandma mentions twice.
I am feeling very very fed up too, but not sure why. I have to fill in the Companies House accounts on the company that was set up by Bex Banjo but what do you say. You put money into an account that turned out not to be the company account and then that the money you put in solely to be used for purchasing a house, was then removed but not returned. I will ask Companies House for their advice. I could be fined if I do not do the account properly! I visited my son in Portugal and we took a rather mournful look at the property that we had almost bought there - I had to halt the process when the money from the account disappeared as I did not know if more money would disappear and from other accounts or if I would have to pay £33000 for the flat that the company failed to buy! Now my son lives in a tent and at present I still do not know how to make it up to him or how to find another similar way to help him stay where he wants to be but also have some money so he can stay where he wants to be. Mr Banjo's legacy lives on even when one tries to get on with life.
