I really have nothing worth blogging about, life has been very mundane since I came back from my break. It is funny how soon that "I've had a holiday" feeling works off and I am back to my usual cranky self.

I had another tummy bug. Happily not the projectile vomiting that Tori and then Trevor suffered from but one of those that feel as if someone has lit a fire in your middle and nothing puts it out. To my surprise Trev took to the idea of taking care of me, supervised Ray and cooked his dinner and threw in a lecture to Ray on how he should take better care of me for good measure. I hear all of this from under a pile of blankets stretched out on the sofa. I drifted in and out of life for about 24 hours and woke up this morning to feeling more or less myself. Thank goodness for that. I am never one for taking to my bed so anything that forces me there has to be overcome as quickly as possible.

I did feel thankful today that I could bend in the middle without pain. And so I was able to spend some time in the back garden in the sun and some more time in the front garden moving pots about. So I needed to be able to bend and stretch.

The other event I wanted to be well today for was taking care of Tori. She came at 4.30pm and went at 11.20pm. This is called a "half sleepover". We did the usual things, colouring in, playing some of our favourite videos, we had some of the singing ones tonight so instead of television Ray was forced to watch a floor show of Tori and Granma dancing to various children's songs on the Children's ABC video. Tori's favourite is a rousing version of "Hands, Knees and Boomps-a-daisy" don't know if you are familiar with that but it must look a sight. Best you weren't there, you might have died laughing! Her Mum and Dad and Uncle Trevor went to a Comedy Festival event that was used as a fund-raiser for her school and said they had a good time there.

Ray had the physiotherapist here again today. I am so pleased with her as she "studies" Rays movements to work out what she can do for him and I am sure the fact that Ray hasn't had a fall at all in the past two months is down to her. She really tries to get him exercising and he is responding by actually remembering to do some of the standing exercises two or three times week. He really responds to certain people and yet not to everyone. Luckily he does to her.

Ray is finally going to "Scallywags" on Friday, this is a men's group for Strokies below the age of 65 that he was offered some months ago. We did not consider it appropriate then because he was falling so frequently. There is not a nurse there and he will have to collect his own lunch and ASK for it to be cut up, and remember to take his lunchtime meds, and be responsible for his own toiletting etc. He will be picked up by Community Transport and dropped back home, I do not even have to provide transport. I could worry about all of that but everyone concerned is saying "Don't worry" so I'll try not to. So if you see a short middle aged woman with very chewed fingernails on your travels on Friday, give her a smile, she is probably someone like ME.