G'day, folks.
TM, congrats on getting in the candidate of your choice.
Tonime, welcome back. Sorry difficult child is being so frustrating. That's why we're here!
Rabbit, glad difficult child 2 enjoyed the zoo.
Sharon/WO, enjoy the museum. The Titanic display sounds interesting. I hope you can get Leonardo di Caprio's autograph (just kidding).
Andy, I enjoy a good thunderstorm, especially if I'm at the beach in a sheltered cave on the cliffs. As long as the computer is guarded...
We've had a lot of rain here, no storms though. But enough rain to flood the main road out of town. The garden is happy - I'm able to pick lettuce to have with lunch, every day now. In fact, I HAVE to pick it, it's growing so fast. We harvest it leaf by leaf (it's oak leaf lettuce) and make really fresh salad sandwiches that way.
I've got my cleaner tomorrow. He has also been mother in law's cleaner but the guy is periodically unstable. He gave mother in law a scare the other day and she rang the agency and asked to have him replaced as her cleaner. I'm not sure how he will be with me tomorrow. Despite his instability, he is a friend (sort of). However as I said to mother in law, her welfare comes first, I encouraged her to make the complaint. I never told her about his previous hassles, when he (the cleaner) was seen by difficult child 1 being hassled by police and carted off the train; when we asked him (the cleaner) about it, he said that he had been caught "pleasuring himself" on the train. I remember I changed the subject pretty darn quick, the guy has a sort of "punish me, please, I've been a baaad boy" air about this sort of confession and I didn't want to stroke his reverse ego any more than unavoidable. But I suspect what happened back then, was he thought he was alone in the trian carriage but failed to notice the signs in big letters warning passengers that they are being watched on CCTV. I worried back then about whether I should have notified the agency about this, or just kept my mouth shut. I kept quiet about it at the time, because I really don't tink he is a danger to anyone. But he IS strange, he has told me he's bipolar and right now I don't think he's coping with life too well. mother in law can be difficult and she may have aggravated him, but in his position he should be able to cope with stroppy little old ladies and not throw a tanty.
But it could mean tomorrow could be awkward.
I'll report in for sure if things get too strange.
Marg
