Oh you are a flatterer @Anastasia 😊 re your comment that I have a 'young screen presence'. Thank you ... I think?
Oh yes, I remember the year when I turned 50 (such a long time ago 😂) ... I think it dawned upon me that year that I really was getting old/er. I have always been mistaken for someone quite a bit younger than I am, but I think more recently I definitely look my age. Certainly I feel it.
I think I was attracted to the volunteer work in nursing homes because I had my own parents a long way away from me and I was unable to visit them. So it was a bit like ... I will help out someone elses parents, and hope that someone elsewhere might do the same for my parents. Too late for my Mum now of course, but Dad gets looked after well by the people we set him up with for AgedCare. The people who deliver his meals each day, and do some cleaning and bed changing and showering once a week are really fabulous to and with him.
I do a bit of all sorts in the nursing home when I do go. I am in the Volunteer Community Visitor program, and have been allocated a certain person with similar interests, but whom has no other visitors. But I also help out with activities and outings sometimes. But my main role is to visit this particular person and spend time with her as her special visitor, someone specifically for her. Its sad because so many of these residents have no family left, or none living nearby. But yes, hopefully one day soon .. the facilities will be able to reopen to visitors and I can start going again.
Oh yes, the power did eventually come back on on Monday. It was only out for just on 2 hours. So all good this time. Really just an inconvenience because we had no idea how long it would be out for. Not sure if I could cook the planned dinner or if I would have to resort to cold chicken and salad. The only thing in our house that is not electricity reliant is our wood burning fire in our living room. We had that going on the day, and at least it provided a bit of firelight in the dark.
I have read that wind has a negative influence on mood for a great number of people. I do live in a lovely area of NSW. But I gues like many people in the Bush ... mother nature can strike back with droughts, fires, floods and storms. We all take our share of those in Australia. After all we are, in Dorthea Mackellars famous words:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!
Love the Pooh Bear and Piglet story .. thank you so much for sharing. 🤗 Its so sweet.
It sounds as though you work for a good organisation, and thats absolute priceless. Though with the changed circumstances meaning a change of roles, it does mean some added stress unfortunately. But at least its something you can do from home, and in todays COVID environment, thats a big plus I think.
Are you working today? How is your Boy getting along so far?
Emelia 🌸
