Monday, June 19, 2006

water .... and tickets!

Hi All ..... it's chilly here this morning, not helped by having NO HOT WATER !! Brrrr! Dad discovered that a switch in our meter box had switched itself off, so he turned it back on ... and now, a couple of hours later, the water appears to be heating .... but why did it turn itself off??!! I have to go out every hour or so today and check that this switch is still on and that doovey is still turning around and the pipe is still getting warm .... and ring him if the answer to any of those questions is no!
Anyway .... I've just spent an hour on Firefox and the phone, and we have tickets for Heth Sue and me to go to The Boy from Oz ..... yippee!! There were better tickets available (for the same money) at the afternoon session so I checked with Al that he'd be happy to mind the littlies in the afternoon instead of the evening! He said that's OK .... so we have tickets!! Or we will in a week or so when they arrive!
Dad thoroughly enjoyed the Walk on the weekend - of course! (and it appears John coped with the women Ok! ... and Rita was well and truly a blessing in the prayer chapel!) Altho it sounds as tho it was a bit different from most previous ones .... but the pilgrims all looked and sounded pretty happy at Closing yesterday, so that's good! Jenny C was Support Director, adn Rob provided some unexpected drama by falling through/from/out of a manhole cover at work on Friday! He badly dislocated his right shoulder, carted off to hospital, etc etc .... but by some miracle (!?) when the expert came to check him out before operating to fix it, surgery wasn't required after all ... wow! He's still pretty sore and annoyed and frustrated, but looking forward to a week of catching up on his reading! We had tea with him n Jenny n Ellie n Josiah, and Moyra and Jim, n Phil and Kathy before we came home last night .... Dad Jim n Rob shared a nice bottle of red, so i drove! Bye!

1 comment:

nannakaren said...

On every Walk I've been on, and most others so I'm told, when the Pilgrims go to the Chapel first thing in the morning, they're all very quiet and contemplative, but not this time!! And I don't think I've ever laughed so much at Closing as I did this time ... some quite funny but deep sharing ... was good! Some tears too , but that's par for the course! Was all good!
I think your folks' water "drama" wins hands down - how ghastly!! Hope all fixed without too much more trauma!