Greetings Dear Readers.
It is your red bummed Congolese African Grey Parrot blog writer. I am out of jail for a few days and enjoying, with my mum, a very, very slow and lazy start to the day. It's Sunday, August 7th and most peculiar things have been happening here in deepest Knightsbridge.
Let me start by telling you the good news, in fact, the very best news. Which is that she does not have an Abdominal Aorta Aneurisym, aka an AAA, what she does have is a slghtly wider than normal Aorta. Phew.. this is, afterall, the biggest blood vessel in your body and the doctor was extremely thorough and detailed in his ultrasonic examination of it last Tuesday.
Her stress level is very high, for there has been and still is a lot, read great deal, of quite unpleasant stuff going on but we are, at this present moment in time, ok and safe.
We have had incredible moral and physical support from these friends, Tereza, Pat, Leigh, MaryLou, Myra, Debbie and Tom. Others have been noticeable in their silence. So I'll move swiftly along but I doubt that she'll be bothering to get in touch with those who, equally, could not be bothered.
My 12th birthday, July 29th, was on the day that she was working with Messrs Pickfords at the flat, packing up our bedroom and putting it into storage. We received an email a couple of days before saying that she, who prefers to remain anonymous, remembered the 29th as being my special day! How nice was that? Seeing as no-one else remembered, it was reallyreally nice!
She is now expecting an email of a different nature, it will from the building contractor giving her a progress report on their findings at our flat. Sure enough, there was a huge area of wet plaster underneath the loose wall paper on the wall behind the cupboard, it is where they, many years ago covered up / bricked up an old fireplace.
Luckily, the house next door has just put scaffolding up right up onto their roof and our builders will be able to go up and examine the chimneys. The dodgy make-do building works, done many years ago when they converted this room, have caused this situation.
This room, our bedroom which is a big room, was the original kitchen of this 1889 house built in ans people don't realise how important it is that a house can 'breathe' to get rid of moisture, they have already discovered that the builders who did decidedly dodgy work ten years ago put in faulty airbricks.
So, will we be back in a couple of weeks time or will we be out for longer? This is a big question.
Where we are is very pleasant. Now that she has made them do everything to make it habitable! It failed its' gas inspection just as she was moving in.. WHAT a good thing I WAS in jail! The bathroom lights and basin are the only things that still need to be addressed and then it will be ok.
This temporary flat is up on a second floor, the bedroom is very light and airy, something that we can not say about our home, it's extremely pleasant to be up so high, to able to have the windows open all day long and to sleep in cool airy conditions.
But it isn't 'home'.
But when we do get home, she'll have a lot of work to do to put it back together again. For the back room is piled high to chest level with everything that came out of the bedroom cupboards. One good thing is that she will look very closely at everything and see if it deserves to go back in there again!
Nothing is 'rubbish', everything is of value but does she want it or would someone else be able and happy to have it?
Lots of work folks.. but not today. She may go to the allotments later, but first we are going to have a big amount if delicious yumyum, we had our tea much earlier.. yes, of course, it was LapySang, for most certainly we brought our most vital yumyums with us!
Onwards mes amis, onwards.. for this too shall pass.
GeeGee Parrot,
August 7th, 2016.
It is your red bummed Congolese African Grey Parrot blog writer. I am out of jail for a few days and enjoying, with my mum, a very, very slow and lazy start to the day. It's Sunday, August 7th and most peculiar things have been happening here in deepest Knightsbridge.
Let me start by telling you the good news, in fact, the very best news. Which is that she does not have an Abdominal Aorta Aneurisym, aka an AAA, what she does have is a slghtly wider than normal Aorta. Phew.. this is, afterall, the biggest blood vessel in your body and the doctor was extremely thorough and detailed in his ultrasonic examination of it last Tuesday.
Her stress level is very high, for there has been and still is a lot, read great deal, of quite unpleasant stuff going on but we are, at this present moment in time, ok and safe.
We have had incredible moral and physical support from these friends, Tereza, Pat, Leigh, MaryLou, Myra, Debbie and Tom. Others have been noticeable in their silence. So I'll move swiftly along but I doubt that she'll be bothering to get in touch with those who, equally, could not be bothered.
My 12th birthday, July 29th, was on the day that she was working with Messrs Pickfords at the flat, packing up our bedroom and putting it into storage. We received an email a couple of days before saying that she, who prefers to remain anonymous, remembered the 29th as being my special day! How nice was that? Seeing as no-one else remembered, it was reallyreally nice!
She is now expecting an email of a different nature, it will from the building contractor giving her a progress report on their findings at our flat. Sure enough, there was a huge area of wet plaster underneath the loose wall paper on the wall behind the cupboard, it is where they, many years ago covered up / bricked up an old fireplace.
Luckily, the house next door has just put scaffolding up right up onto their roof and our builders will be able to go up and examine the chimneys. The dodgy make-do building works, done many years ago when they converted this room, have caused this situation.
This room, our bedroom which is a big room, was the original kitchen of this 1889 house built in ans people don't realise how important it is that a house can 'breathe' to get rid of moisture, they have already discovered that the builders who did decidedly dodgy work ten years ago put in faulty airbricks.
So, will we be back in a couple of weeks time or will we be out for longer? This is a big question.
Where we are is very pleasant. Now that she has made them do everything to make it habitable! It failed its' gas inspection just as she was moving in.. WHAT a good thing I WAS in jail! The bathroom lights and basin are the only things that still need to be addressed and then it will be ok.
This temporary flat is up on a second floor, the bedroom is very light and airy, something that we can not say about our home, it's extremely pleasant to be up so high, to able to have the windows open all day long and to sleep in cool airy conditions.
But it isn't 'home'.
But when we do get home, she'll have a lot of work to do to put it back together again. For the back room is piled high to chest level with everything that came out of the bedroom cupboards. One good thing is that she will look very closely at everything and see if it deserves to go back in there again!
Nothing is 'rubbish', everything is of value but does she want it or would someone else be able and happy to have it?
Lots of work folks.. but not today. She may go to the allotments later, but first we are going to have a big amount if delicious yumyum, we had our tea much earlier.. yes, of course, it was LapySang, for most certainly we brought our most vital yumyums with us!
Onwards mes amis, onwards.. for this too shall pass.
GeeGee Parrot,
August 7th, 2016.
Just catching up after a long spell, so sorry to hear all the bad news! I wish you Godspeed in your progress!
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