Hi All, I've had a bit of "fun" since my last post. As you know, I was without my car for over a week when it went in to have the transmission leak, breaks and a couple of other things fixed. Well, got it back ok, had it for about 4 days, then it was pranged (hit, smashed, bingled). #1 son, Aaron, had gone to work, and parked the car outside the business premises while he went off in the truck to do furniture removals. He got a call from his boss to say there had been an accicent and that my car was involved. Apparently the boss had been reversing his ute (pick-up) out of the driveway and was hit by a bus that didn't stop before coming through an intersection. The force of the smash pushed the ute into my car, and it was hit directly over the left hand wheel. The car is driveable, but not advisable with any more than one person as it rubs terribly. Thankfully it will all be taken care of on someone elses insurance, but once again I am disadvantaged as I really can't do any long trips. The trouble is, I really need (want) to do a fairly long trip as my Mum called yesterday and told me that a family friend had had a bad fall and was in hospital. "Hoddy" as we call her, lives across the road from the house we first moved into after we left the migrant hostel in 1965. Being on our own in this country, apart from friends we and our parents had made, Hoddy immediately adopted us and became a surrogate Nanna to us kids, even though she's only a few years older than our parents. Hoddy has been there for all of us over the years, and her garden has been the backdrop for several wedding photo's. She is now an elderly woman who has been living on her own for a number of years now, and had been planning to move into a unit nearer to her daughters house about 25 minutes drive away. Yesterday she apparently fell when going out into her back yard, and she was there for some time before she was found. She was apparently calling out, but wasn't heard for quite a while. She does have a personal alarm, but the feed is to her daughter who lives 25 minutes away. Pity it wasn't to my brother who still lives in the old family home having bought it from our parents. It seems that Hoddy has broken her collar bone and has some other bruises. So far, I believe that she hasn't broken her hip, but I'll know more once I speak to my Mum after she goes to visit today. I hope to get over there in the next couple of days.........somehow. I adore Hoddy, and want to let her know that I'm there for her. I would hazzard a guess to say that she will not be going back to her home, but that her move into a unit will now be expidited as there are steps at both the front and back doors of her home, and her knees have been getting worse lately. She says that her knees just gave way on this occasion. I'm just thankful that it wasn't a worse fall, or that it happened yesterday not the night before as it got VERY cold that night and I hate to think what would have happened had she been lying out there all night. So now, all is as well as it can be with her, and she shouldn't have any residual problems from this. It will be sad for my brother not to have her over the road though, as she has always been a fixture of our lives there. Still, it will be better for Hoddy to be closer to her family.
On the knitting front.........I'm doing a little summer top for Jayda, one of my granddaughters. She will be 3 in November, and one of the yarns I got in the yellow swap is a rather sweet, variegated (yellow/orange) ribbon yarn. Knitted up it looks sort of like the fabric of the bubbly swimming costumes I wore as a young child. I just need to get over to her house to measure it against her so that it is long enough, and so I can put the straps etc in the right place. As I have lent my camera to her daddy, I can't show pics at the moment, but I will as soon as I get the camera back. He does have a camera of his own, but was having problems being able to up-load the photo's from it. He borrowed my camera so that he could swap the memory cards, but it seems that the problem is actually with his computer and not the camera.
OK, so I have digressed as usual. The other thing I am knitting is some "secret" knitting so don't want to show it here just in case. Rest assured that I will just as soon as I am able to. I will take photo's at various intervals so that I can later show it as a work in progress as well as the finished item.
So, there you have it; my usual caos............does it ever change? Probably not, and if it did I doubt that I would know what to do with myself. lol Take care everyone, and happy knitting.
Oh goodness what a horrible week you have had. I hope your car gets repaired soon for you so you can go and visit your Nana friend. I hope she will be alright. I remember when my nan was alive and fell over and broke her hip. She was in so much pain and it took quite a while for her to recover too. I do hope that good things will happen in your life soon.
Posted by: Sue | September 19, 2007 at 04:50 PM
Where are you? What are you doing? So long between posts Mum and I start to get worried. Love you.
Posted by: Natalie | September 23, 2007 at 07:49 PM
Hi Susan, So sorry to hear about your adopted Nan,I worry about my own Grandmother whose in her eighties and also getting frail!...in response to your question! Thanks for visiting too...a lazy kate holds the bobbins of handspun wool so they can be plied together for two to three ply yarns,this kate is a precision one that has tension applied so they run evenly preventing one rolling fatser than the other! Hope that makes sense!! Cheers!
Posted by: cathy | September 24, 2007 at 07:54 PM