Wednesday W’s #134.

What’s top of my mind: Mum.

Mum was taken to hospital in the middle of the night a few days ago, (not for anything particularly urgent) and while she was there, a routine scan picked up a possible malignancy on one of her kidneys.

Poor thing! Ever since Dad tripped over her walker a year ago and broke his hip, their lives have turned to shit. It’s just one thing after another. Tomorrow we’ll be back at the hospital for another X-ray to see how well her humerus is knitting together after she broke it in December. We’ll be back in a couple of weeks for a scan to zero in on the kidneys to see what’s going on.

I tell you, if they say that her arm brace has to be kept on for more weeks, she’ll probably have to be kept on suicide watch. (I’m only half-joking about that one…)

It’s incredible how life can change in the blink of an eye.

Where I’m NOT going: to Bonbeach today.

I go and see Mum every day, unless someone else lets me know that they’re visiting her, in which case I treat myself to a day off. My niece Morgan is going in to see her.

Where I’ve been: to the beach with the dogs.

It’s such a beautiful morning. Hazel is horrible on lead, so I’m hell-bent on teaching her some manners.

What I’m reading: My Friends by Fredrik Backman

I read his novel ‘Anxious People’ last year and fell in love with this man’s writing. I know I’m late to the party.

I also fell in love with this speech.

What I’m watching: Bridgerton, Australian ‘The Traitors’ and Love is Blind.

A mishmash of junk tv.

What I’m listening to: Within the Wires podcast.

This is fabulous. It’s set in an alternate universe, and each season is a separate story, set anywhere from the 1950’s to current times. I’m spending a lot of time in my sewing room, so I have this on as I’m patiently piecing away.

I’m onto season 6 now.

What I’m eating: baked zucchini.

I was about to pull a dusty zucchini plant out. It wasn’t producing anything, or so I thought. In the shadows, right up against the wooden wall of the wicking bed, I saw a massive zucchini longer than my forearm.

omg.

I’ve decided that it’ll make 3 dinners for me. I defrosted a serve of bolognaise sauce and popped a third of the zucchini in the oven, with a bit of the middle scooped out, the bolognaise on top and some Aldi pizza cheese to finish it all off.

It was so delicious. I’m having the same dinner tonight, because 2 of the bolgnaise sauce packs had frozen themselves together and were inextricably linked. Thank goodness I enjoyed it… imagine if it was just ‘meh’?

What I’m planning: the same as last week.

The Seaglass quilt is now one row of blocks longer. I have 2 more rows to go before it’s finished. I’m determined to get it done before my last sewing machine class next Tuesday.

Each block is 1.5″ square, and with seam allowances, they end up as 1″ square. It takes a lot of time to make a quilt this size with such small blocks.

I’m not a patient person, but this is teaching me.

Who deserves a thumbs-up: Tom34 and Georgia31.

My Capricorns both came to visit me last week. While she was here, Georgia31 noticed that the back sliding door wasn’t working, so she took it off the tracks, sprayed some WD40 on it and it was all good again.

The next day, Tom33 and Sophie came over, and while Sophie and I chatted, Tom34 test-drove one of the power tools that they got me for Christmas. He got into the zone, and did all of the edging around the front lawn, weeded most of the garden and used the tool to clean up the weeds in the brick paving in the driveway.

What good kids I have!

What has made me smile: only a month to go for the Taiwan trip!

I really have to get my suitcase fixed.

Dad joke of the day: