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This wall is called Peace Wall and is painted with graffiti concerning the ethno-nationalist conflict between predominantly Catholic and Protestant communities in Ireland, historically known as The Troubles, lasted for approximately 30 years. Of course we went along the wall and read the messages and looked at the pictures. The whole story was very sad, so many death in the name of God !
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The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
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WEEKEND
Saturday we still were locked in, the temperature had raised but the rain hadn't stopped. A few residents were agitated and running around like headless chickens. The poor things had to vacate their rooms because they will be renovated. Others had to move back into the newly renovated ones.
That's already unpleasant when you're 30, but at 80 or 90 it's a real challenge. Of course, the management suggested that relatives help, but there are also those who don't have any, and anyway, it's not the relatives' job but the staff's; after all, it's the management that is undertaking the renovations and, of course it wants to save money. I will have to vacate my room one day too so it can be renovated. That's supposed to be in fall of 2027, but judging by how the schedule is being followed, I assume I will have time until 2028.
Apart from my cat collection, I won't be able to help much because of my COPD. The nervousness of those affected was somehow contagious. Luckily, we had a rather difficult quiz in the afternoon about sea creatures, whether they are mammals or not, and other questions as well. Not so easy, but we learned a lot!
On Sunday our little group got together to play Bingo and for the first time I was first ! It was a nice afternoon.
My little neighbor, who loved her red wine and champagne so much that she bought two bottles of wine and a small bottle of champagne (for breakfast) every day, was asked by her daughters, who thought she was spending too much money, to move to a smaller room to have enough money for her fuel. At 86 it is impossible and even dangerous to make her stop. I only hope that her new neighbor will be able to open her breakfast champagne bottle, as I used to do.
She invited me to see her new room . I was naturally very curious, as I had been told that the rooms were really tiny and you could barely turn around. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that the rooms were a normal size, not as big as in "my castle," of course, but her furniture fitted, and it looked really cozy. Those who told me the rooms were small must have thought she wanted to share her room with an elephant. There would even be enough room for Rosie my cat. I found the rooms very tasteful, and the view of the park and the little chapel in the attic was lovely.
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
As we can't go out due to the cool temperatures, thunderstorms and rain. My COPD affected my movements and I was quickly breathless and had to behave like a snake. But that wasn't so bad, since I spend a lot of time with my old photos.
Everything is in complete chaos here now that the third floor was finally finished and over 30 TVs were delivered, which was naturally quite interesting for the some residents, and two days later, beds! There were boxes and bed parts lying around everywhere. So, you couldn't exactly walk fast, and those in wheelchairs had to do slaloms.
While I am typing another thunderstorm is arriving ! Fortunately little Rosie doesn't care about lightening and thunder !
thunder is a good lullaby
All our games have a purpose. This time we tested our dexterity. It was quite fun, we had to put a cup over our hands and then pick up plastic balls and place them on top of upturned colored cups where they should stay put ! Not so easy ! A stopwatch was used. The best person took 1 minute, and I took 1.5 minutes. The last person took almost 3 minutes.
The week ended with a special event. My best friend, whom I've known for over 20 years, met each other again for the first time since five years. Neither of us knows what happened back then. It was the time when Rick approached his last hours, and I was a nervous wreck. Finally, she sent me an email this Christmas. And so, we slowly reconnected and both realized that we were far too old and didn't have to much time for misunderstandings, as we were both actually suffering.
We have done so much together, traveled, taken yoga and painting classes together, that it was more than time to see each other again. Which is exactly what we did today. I drove to her place, and we fell in each others arms and spent the next three hours catching up on at least the most important things. She now has ten great-grandchildren (!!).
We probably both have a few more wrinkles, but we both felt that we had not changed much. It was a very lovely afternoon, and many more will follow. Now I am angry with myself because I forgot to take pictures !
Excursion Loch Ness on our tour around the UK
The last chapter of a young adventurous woman, hidden in an old grandma's body, living in a castle, a senior residence, where she leads an amusing and interesting life with her cat.
