Vireya's Blog

One thing I forgot to do yesterday was get a photo of my siblings and me together. There might not be too many more chances to do this, as w...

 This morning I cut some daffodils and leucadendrons from our garden and put them in the car, It seemed like a lot at the time, but I probab...

On 31st July my mother left this world as I sat beside her stitching and a CD of hymns played quietly.  Here is one of the earliest photos o...

On the 2nd of this month, my mother's nursing home rang me to discuss her situation. She seemed to be fading away, and they considered h...

A week ago Mum's nursing home closed the doors to visitors because there were some residents who were unwell. Not with covid, with gastr...

 This is the intimidating door to the ward where Mum is: Despite Mum having a negative covid test on Thursday, and another one on Friday, sh...

On Thursday night I had another call from the nursing home, wanting to send Mum to hospital because of her fever. By that time I had had a c...

The last few days have been consumed in gathering up the remnants of my parents' lives, emptying out the unit they have lived in since 2...

 Today would have been my father's 92nd birthday. I went to see Mum, and look what I found:     The nursing home has a coffee shop, whic...

This is a stained-glass window in the church where we held the memorial service for my father this afternoon. It is dedicated to the Welsh m...

 On the 1st of May, the five crepe myrtles were beautifully autumnal: A week later those lovely red leaves are gone:  In May six years ago I...

 The photos are not in the order I tried to put them in but this is the view from my father's hospital room It is much nicer that the vi...

There has been a bit going on, but I seem to have got out of the blogging habit. Here's a few happenings of the month so far. The white ...

We had my family's Christmas get-together in the back yard of my sister's home. This year my brother joined us as well, so it was a ...

My mother's nursing home have relaxed their visiting restrictions a little bit further, so that now more family members can visit. My si...

Apologies to my friends in Melbourne. I don't want to make you jealous of our freedom to move around. But today, Dot: Jack: and family m...

Today my mother moved into residential care. We were fortunate to find a room available in a place that is still allowing some visits, as mo...