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Things That Gladden The Heart

My gran bless her, has terrible Alzheimer's / dementure doesn't remember anybody really that visits her. I see her most evenings now to make her a sandwich and she'll think i've not been for 2 weeks and confuses me with her son who passed away 20 years or so.

She usually is ill tempered and impatient which is understandable with the nurses and carers but cracks a smile when i show for half hour most evenings. Last night I took her some shopping over and took the puppy with me, whilst I sorted out some bits they had about an hour together. Never seen so much joy from her since this terrible disease took over, bursting with energy and overwhelmed with happiness, playing with the dog the best she could. I had probably the least repetitive conversation i've had with her in 2 years subsequently and she reflected on when she had her own dog many years ago and got many things she'd usually get confused by correct.

Don't think I can ever go without the dog again, seeing her like that was absolutely priceless to me.
 
Wife bought a battery checker. I'd never heard of it before. It's a plastic container about 10 inches high, with a facility on top to test your battery voltages. If they are weak, it goes in the container. The eye opener here is that my son's two bed clip lights run on three AAA batteries each. The light on both was run right down. Rather than throw all six away, it turns out that only three were flat and others were fine! Saved myself three AAA batteries! It's the small things.
 
Sitting in the office and just opened a new jar of coffee and that extra waft of coffee smell hits you that only get when the jar's newly opened :coffee:
 
Some of you may remember a post I put up in random irritations a wee while back about an assault on my brother-in-law whilst he was out having a Christmas drink with work colleagues. Bearing him mind he is one of the quietest, nicest guys you could ever wish to meet it just seemed a mindless, senseless act of extreme violence. Injuries included a a broken jaw, broken cheek bone, broken eye socket, broken nose and a serious knife wound. Several operations later and he's slowly on the mend but struggles to concentrate during conversations and has anxiety issues when out.

Turns out to have not been a random act, the reason behind it being my (adopted) sister, his wife, is not quite Anglo-Saxon white.

A fairly lengthy court case has ended. 3 thugs have been found guilty of GBH and some serious, prolonged witness intimidation. The witness intimidation involved 2 of the thugs forcing their way into a witness's home and holding his wife at knifepoint whilst they explained what would happen to her if he didn't withdraw his statement. They then revisited at a later date, causing a lot of damage to the house and car.

They are now starting a long holiday(y)(y)(y)(y)(y)(y)
 
An appalling story Brian. Great that they have gone on a long holiday but more important that the witnesses were presumably not frightened enough to withdraw their statements, all credit to them, and more important that your BIL makes a full recovery.
 
Hobbit said:
When we lived up near Aberdeen, the brewery was about half a mile away. They had a bar in the visitor experience centre.... I may have visited several times.
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Did you ever do the AGM? Hundreds of beers available, great food and many bands on. Huge day long party!
 
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