#1839 Saturday 7 July

It's 10:30am ... Kaylia has gone off for a drive .... note the phrasing?  "Kaylia has gone for a drive"  .... she has become accustomed to having her 'person' available to take her out.  At 10am she looked at the clock on the wall and said "10 o'clock... drive?"   She knows!

Tomorrow we are going down to Busselton for two nights ..... we'll be at a different place .... the Abbey Beach Resort that's  100m along the road from the Sebel where we usually stay.  We have used up all our "points" at the Sebel so it left us free to choose.  It will be interesting to see how this place compares to our usual.

When we return from Busselton on Tuesday, Monica will be leaving us to fly back to the UK. Her grandfather has deteriorated in health and she is needed as a carer for him.

So we are once again on the hunt for a new aupair.  It's tempting to say "Oh, I'll do it." .... but it's not a good idea as my sleepiness and forgettory is meaning that the daily 120km drive is not a good idea..... and it's always a good thing to have an extra person to share the load of keeping up the level of tickles and other attention that Kaylia requires!

#1838 Thursday 5 July

It's 7:15am and she's in the bath.  This morning she was awake at 6am and I failed in my quest to keep her asleep a little longer.  .... and this morning she was not even her usual well behaved self!  She was quite noisy .... wanting me to talk to her and wanting tickles.  My "command voice" instructions .... that it was still sleep time ..... they didn't work.  Ah well .... she's very good most of the time.


Stop Press .... can you help?  Our federal government intends to launch a criminal prosecution against two guys who in 2004 "broke ranks" and told the Australian people about a situation in which the government had deliberately broken it's own laws.    Now those two men are to be prosecuted!  Can you sign a petition to the Attorney General asking him to not do this?

PETITION

 

#1837 Monday 2 July

A word to Chris.... it POURED with rain today.  I took Kaylia down to Fremantle for Friendship Club .... the car windscreen wipers were going front and back the whole way.  As usual Kaylia luuurrvved FC ..... and FC luuuurrved Kaylia.
..... but after the unsettled night that Kaylia had last night, I'm bombed.  It's 7pm and I think she may have crashed already.  I'd like to do that too ..... but the past few days have been disastrous for IT and seeing this is a pay week, the IT issues have to be sorted ASAP.

#1836 Sunday 1 July 2018

It's been an exhausting day.  Kaylia has been her usual delightful self ..... it's now 3:30pm and she is in the bath .... for the third time today.  She has a huge mound of bubbles and she is VERY happy.  This morning we drove over to Aunty Maxine's and had our usual pleasant time ... followed by an op shop visit  ... and then home.

I'm worn out physically and emotionally by the process of completing an application under the Nation Redress Scheme ..... in normal government fashion the website is fraught with technical problems which add to the trauma of actually preparing the application.  The IT pitfalls are such that ... considering the average age of applicants ..... most applicants would be very challenged to complete the process .... and this would really add to the trauma of the process.

5:30pm. The application is completed....  Kaylia and I have been shopping....  I found her a pair of snugly sox to wear around the house.... so far she likes them.

Naomi and I were gobsmacked by this billboard.....   amazing lack of thought by the uni! 

It's now 9:30pm .... I've just been round the house looking for Teddy .... and he's nowhere to be seen!  No doubt he is in Kaylia's room under her bed.  I don't know why ... but he really loves to sneak in there and curl up in the corner of the room under her bed.  He's a strange dog in many ways.