Showing posts with label Zimbabwe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zimbabwe. Show all posts

Thursday, January 05, 2012

I've left Michael!

To stay overnight at V's home. She is in a lot of pain from her Christmas Day fall and could not get out of bed this morning. The doc thinks it is a deep tissue injury with a hematoma which has burst. The bruising, which was not apparent the first few days, now reaches almost up to her waist. So here I am, sleeping in a building for the first time in a long while. She has been advised to take it easy with a minimal amount of walking. So no adventures this week. Hopefully next week she will be well enough to do something.

Meanwhile I have downloaded a couple of books for her to read on her new Kindle Touch. One of them is called Motohuma the Firehead by Jennifer Munro. It is the story of a girl born and raised in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe (where I was born and raised) whose family has a big secret. Quite an enjoyable read. The other one is The Peachkeeper.


Bought roast chicken and salad for dinner and two videos to watch, Secretariat and some Keanu Reeves movie. C'est la vie!


Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Wonderful Wednesday??? Not!

When we got over to Virginia's condo we found her in considerable pain. Pain in her pelvis/tail bone and also in her shoulders. So we did not go out for her Wonderful Wednesday. If she is feeling better tomorrow or the next day we will have a Thrilling Thursday or a Fantastic Friday instead. So we helped around the house with some chores that needed doing and went and did a bit of grocery shopping. The Chateau at San Marcos provides her with a 3-4 course meal every day, but she does like to have a few snacks on hand.

It was HOT here today with the temperature getting up to about 90F. The thing about this the weather here is that it cools down really quickly in the evening as there is no cloud cover to hold the heat in. So much like Rhodesia now called Zimbabwe. Makes me feel quite homesick.