This is the day I ditched our fuddy-duddy old Telecom account and got a new email home address. If you need it, get onto my gmail address, and ask for it.
malcolmgarr@gmail.com
Betty is off to the south in early August to help with her Mum's affairs. Putting her in a nursing home means that her nice house has to be tidied up and home affairs sorted - deciding what she wants to have with her in her new room at Cargill Court in Invercargill. Mum is happy in that she is just along the corridor from her Aunt Muriel - yes! her aunt is 97 or something, and they are more like sisters. Her room is quite small -though not as small as my office which is the size of a decent broom cupboard. This means that she can hang a few favourite pictures on the wall and have a small chest of drawers, and that is about it.
This will be a huge change for her as she has lived in firstly a huge old homesetad for most of her married life, and then in a spacious 3 bedroom house since then, and you can imagne what someone with the propensities of a squirrel can achieve in a short twenty years - especially when she acquired all her mother's things that were not thrown away when SHE died.
The daughters are going to have to be ruthless, but it will be exhausting. Every drawer and cupboard is stuffed with clothes, little unopened gifts, and embroidery projects on the go, and such thngs as crochet.
The intention is to rent out the house, to help pay her fees at the Home, because she doesn't qualify for any government assistance by reason of capital and income levels.
More on the way! Maybe a photo or two as well.
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