Back to Normal

Well things have been a lot nicer for the last 24 hours as Margaret's period of irritability and bad temper has passed and I am also a lot calmer.

The main problem with Margaret at present is her memory loss which really is quite severe at present. She never knows what day of the week it is. It is Sunday today isn't it? :) She has been using her computer quite a lot recently which means that I get a string of requests to find her "e-mails". Now that is in parentheses for a reason I shall explain later. At about 3.00 pm yesterday she asked me to find her e-mails and, after closing down the Sims and multitude of windows and web pages reinstated Windows mail. At 3.15 pm she was back and everything was "lost" once more. I am now an expert at closing the Sims and all the other odds and ends and bringing up mail once more. At 3.25 pm she was lost again. This time I really broke all records in sorting her out as I normally meet out friend B with her little dog for Louis's afternoon walk so after getting things sorted I grabbed Louis and fled. When I got back an hour later Margaret was lost again.

This morning she is back on the computer and when she told me that she wanted all her "old e-mails" I set it up and she said she couldn't see them. I took a little more time and realized what she really wanted was all her old pictures. These are a mixture of family photos and pictures downloaded by Margaret when she was more capable. I have left her happily looking through her pictures which will keep her occupied for some time unless she clicks onto another page and "loses" them when I shall be summoned once again.

Today we shall go out to lunch as we missed out on Wednesday due to the visit to the specialist. The last time we went the cooking at the Noosa Bowls Club was pretty awful and I hope things are better today.

While on food I cooked a special roast dinner last night. I had bought a big turkey drumstick and cooked it outside in our Weber Kettle, a closed in barbecue heated using heat beads. I prepared roast potatoes, green peas, baby green beans and a thick brown gravy. This was serve piping hot with Cranberry Sauce. Louis was drooling as I carved the meat but he will have to wait until later to day when he gets some in lieu f his normal lunch. Margaret said that she loved the potatoes and gravy but left most of the turkey which I thoroughly enjoyed. I am trying to cook at least one full dinner a week.