I’m not sure if Mums legs are not working so well or if she is getting tired faster, but this Tuesday after the shortest walk from car to coffee shop, Mum had mostly had enough.  So we went for a drive instead. We seem to be past the point where she enjoys music and instead finds too much noise offensive, so we mostly drove in silence and I watched her watching the world go by.  She seemed to like that.

I did suggest a party afterwards, and while she wasn’t up for the dancing, she was up for the cake (surprise, surprise!)

You may have seen on my last post that I am about to attempt composting.  The flaw Mr R and I realised last week though is that we need a green and brown mix, and veggie cuttings are only one of these (I’m not sure which), but the other is mostly leaves and grass cuttings.  And while we have many veggie cuttings, we don’t have a lawn or a tree that has dropped sufficient leaves in the garden to collect up.  But Mum and Dad live with a wood either side of them and one thing they have an absolute excess of is leaves.  So I popped out into their garden to gather a sack.  And it was so lovely that I collected many, many leaves on the shady side of the garden to help out a bit.  While I was doing that, and Mum was standing in the kitchen doorway asking if I’d finished yet and telling me she felt sick when I said no (she likes being the focus at all times), Dad thought he’d come out to ‘see if I can get to the top of the garden, do a bit of pruning and still breathe’.  I thoroughly approved of testing this while I was there to help out should he need either a piggy back or an ambulance, so between leaf piles I rushed up and down to check if either were required.  And the good news is they weren’t 🙂.  Which is a good thing as I’d realised the logistics of piggy-backing Dad were probably not something I could manage successfully alone…

So this Tuesday there was cake, more cake, leaves, pruning and sun.  And I think that makes for a pretty good Tuesday 🙂