So...many of you are wondering if I still exist as Jonney's been the only one posting recently. Yes, I'm still out there...keeping 'the home fires burning' an' all that. I've been able to reduce my work hours and go onto permanent night shifts, so I only work Mon.-Wed. nights now...less stress and my bloodpresure has come down, too! I've also finally got time to sort out messes around the house and rediscover our allotment, which you should be getting pic.'s of very shortly! I've had some interesting night shifts recently....nearly got attacked by a young patient who seemed to have the Jeckel/Hyde syndrom! I do wonder sometimes what would happen if one night we wouldn't be able to restrain a violent patient as we don't really have security guards at the hospital and the police aren't allowed in as it's considered a 'safe haven'....Hmmm. I lost one patient who I'd been caring for for a month...and his family refused the life saving operation, just wanted him to die naturally....then didn't even spend the last hours of his life with him....it amazes me how cold the relationships in some families can be! But the Lord has been good and blessed me with a great team of nurses at work and a full schedule at home while Jonney's away.

I really can't say I'm lonely as the Lord has blessed me with 'others' in the house...I like the hamster I'm able to watch for Hannah(good friend) while she's on holiday. Not so fond of the spiders He has brought along the way: Lets call them Sheila, Stormy and Ugly. Sheila lives in the farthest corner of the bathroom where the toilet cleaner is and as she is yet small and shy, I don't really mind her at all. Stormy also lives in the bathroom...but loves the door frame and it takes a good storm or loud banging to get him to creep back into his hole in the corner of the hallway. Ugly is the newest addition to the Roberts' creepies....though I have suspected him for several months already (female intuition). He lives in the living room underneath the large lamp and is by far the ugliest and largest spider I've seen this year....alive. So, although I detest spiders and really don't mind at all for a knight in shinning armour to come along and free me from this investation of terrors...I am too much a chicken to get rid of them myself (though I used to be able to vacum them up until someone recently insisted they actually live on inside the bag!. Today actually I had a house full of able knights.....but the creepies decided to take the day off and probably had a lazy afternoon outing on our new bench or in my herb garden!

As a side-note,though I'm not particularly lonely, yes, I am missing Jonathan very much....especially when around his brothers, for some strange reason.
Nevermind...only 18 days to go until we meet up in Germany for our friends' wedding near Berlin. I'm trying to arrange a few days in Hamburg after that and then several days with my great uncle by the lake (in the holiday house my great grandfather built, which we stayed in quite often during the interesting days of my youth). Anyway, those are stories for another blogspot....till next time!