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Love, Lies and Marriage
Aug. 26th, 2015 07:15 pmHey ho, f-list. So much for a relaxing couple of weeks off. Long story short, my mother's partner, who has dementia and is frail at the best of times, has been admitted to hospital with some sort of virus. They can't get his fever down, and he's delirious, so that's not good. I spent last night driving my mother around the countryside - to the hospital, back out of town to their house, back into town to my house - and finally got to bed around three.
I live about five minutes from the hospital, so my mother is staying with me for the duration. (And maybe longer? If John can't go home, for whatever reason, I suspect my mother will want to move back into her house, which I am currently minding for her. So that will be interesting. We will cross that bridge when we come to it.) Anyway, that's a thing that's happening at the moment.
In other news, f-list, I'd like you to meet Round Mousie.
Round Mousie is one of the extensive Mousie family. Other family members include such luminaries as Blue Mousie, Yellow Mousie, Fish Mousie, Demon Mousie and Crinkle Mousie. Among the Mousie family, Round Mousie's claim to fame is that he scuttles along the ground when a string under his tail is pulled. Or that was his claim to fame, until the day I caught Alistair chewing the ring pull. I didn't want him to choke, so I pulled the string as far out as possible and snipped it off. Hello, newly safe Round Mousie!
The last few days, I have noticed little tufts of stuffing around the floor. My first suspect was Dog Mousie, which is neither a mouse nor a cat toy, but a stuffed cotton dachshund I made from a free kit in a craft magazine, which Alistair found (on a shelf, I might add) and claimed for himself. But no, Dog Mousie is fine. Today I found more stuffing, so I checked the Mousie box and found that it is Round Mousie who is leaking, poor lamb. I must have snipped the stitches when I cut his string. Then I thought that Round Mousie felt unusually flat, and realised that it was because whatever mechanism used to be inside him had also fallen out.
And then I thought: You know what would fit perfectly inside Round Mousie?
( Mystery solved! )
I live about five minutes from the hospital, so my mother is staying with me for the duration. (And maybe longer? If John can't go home, for whatever reason, I suspect my mother will want to move back into her house, which I am currently minding for her. So that will be interesting. We will cross that bridge when we come to it.) Anyway, that's a thing that's happening at the moment.
In other news, f-list, I'd like you to meet Round Mousie.
Round Mousie is one of the extensive Mousie family. Other family members include such luminaries as Blue Mousie, Yellow Mousie, Fish Mousie, Demon Mousie and Crinkle Mousie. Among the Mousie family, Round Mousie's claim to fame is that he scuttles along the ground when a string under his tail is pulled. Or that was his claim to fame, until the day I caught Alistair chewing the ring pull. I didn't want him to choke, so I pulled the string as far out as possible and snipped it off. Hello, newly safe Round Mousie!
The last few days, I have noticed little tufts of stuffing around the floor. My first suspect was Dog Mousie, which is neither a mouse nor a cat toy, but a stuffed cotton dachshund I made from a free kit in a craft magazine, which Alistair found (on a shelf, I might add) and claimed for himself. But no, Dog Mousie is fine. Today I found more stuffing, so I checked the Mousie box and found that it is Round Mousie who is leaking, poor lamb. I must have snipped the stitches when I cut his string. Then I thought that Round Mousie felt unusually flat, and realised that it was because whatever mechanism used to be inside him had also fallen out.
And then I thought: You know what would fit perfectly inside Round Mousie?
( Mystery solved! )