Brief update
Feb. 22nd, 2026 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baroque_mongooseTo my great astonishment and that of my sisters, we do still have a mother. My sister e-mailed last night to say she was looking so bad they didn't think she'd last the night, so they were going to take it in turns sitting up with her. This morning I'd heard nothing, so I e-mailed, and said if it was bad news I'd honestly rather have an e-mail, as I find that easier to process. (I have had the news of someone's death on the phone before. I didn't handle it well.) I didn't get a reply before church, so I set off; the not-knowing bit is very difficult. Still, I wanted to go, partly for itself and partly because I had a few things for various people I knew would be there (knitted jumper for the latest new baby in our congregation, and some chocolate bars I don't like because of the texture but I know someone who very much does).
I arrived home and wasn't quite sure I wanted to go near the computer straight away, and in any case I had mundane things to do in the kitchen; I needed to cut up and fry half the seitan I made yesterday and freeze the other half, rinse the hand washing and hang up such of it as I had room for, heat up the curry for lunch, and so on. I did all that and finally approached the laptop, duly fortified by the curry.
My sister had e-mailed about 1 pm. Yup. She's still with us. Great Scott, she's tough.
So, we're all still watching this space, for the moment, and it's rather hard to post about anything else. I'll give it a go tomorrow, if things remain the same.
I arrived home and wasn't quite sure I wanted to go near the computer straight away, and in any case I had mundane things to do in the kitchen; I needed to cut up and fry half the seitan I made yesterday and freeze the other half, rinse the hand washing and hang up such of it as I had room for, heat up the curry for lunch, and so on. I did all that and finally approached the laptop, duly fortified by the curry.
My sister had e-mailed about 1 pm. Yup. She's still with us. Great Scott, she's tough.
So, we're all still watching this space, for the moment, and it's rather hard to post about anything else. I'll give it a go tomorrow, if things remain the same.
