Thursday, September 4, 2008

Removing furniture from the house

I've again been on to another charity who take furniture - this time PDSA.

I got the familiar refrain that yes they could take it in principle but (a) there's a backlog and (b) their men can't collect from an upper floor.

So there is a problem getting rid of the unwanted furniture from upstairs. I would like to offload that dresser and unused chest of drawers from the top deck.

Can someone find some able bodied men to come and dump this in the back lane? I am sure that once this is done they items will be removed very quickly.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Today's visit

I went to see Mam today for about 1.5 hours - getting there at just after 2pm.
Mam was sleeping when I entered the room and no sooner had I sat down than Fr O'Connor and a young curate entered!! So I sat outside for a few minutes. Fr OC asked me how Mam was settling in but I said it was still too early to tell. Actually Mam was very flustered by having so many people arrive at once so for quite a while she wasn't making much sense (she'd just woken up, after all).
I sat with her for a while and gradually she brightened up. Things were helped enormously by the arrival of Sister Mary Bridget who is very nice and we three of us had a chat - yesterday (Monday) Mam had been out with the other residents in a minibus mystery tour. Mam had enjoyed it a lot, I think. It took in the new quayside, Gateshead and South Shields where Mam had an ice cream.
So that was nice.
I offered to help them out if they need any help with their website.