First night with out Tamazepam and it didn’t go too well. According to Karen, she hadn’t slept at all. I have learned not to take this literally and normally it means she has had a bad night’s sleep. She has said this a few times, and I have caught her snoring her little head off.

Her first question to me when i woke her up to give her her tablets was “Was I snoring ?”.

When I said, “I don’t think so”, she then responded “I haven’t slept a wink”

I think it will take her body a while to get the Tamazepam out of her system. We are going to persevere.

HHL#2 arrived (HHL#1 is on her day off) to get kp ready to meet the world.

Whilst she was here, all hell broke lose. The postman arrived setting the dogs into “frenzy” mode. The HandyVan came with two what-seemed-like 80 year olds who had come to fix a KeySafe to our wall. The Keysafe allows the home help ladies to get in to the house without me being there. Jane Burns phoned to see how kp was and all of this occurred within seconds of each other. kp was oblivious to it all with HHL#2 drying her hair at the time.

Marie texted us during breakfast to let us know she was coming for the afternoon. kp had offered to take her for some beauty treatment. Pretty much as soon as Marie arrived, she was whisked out to the beauty salon. kp wanted some facial feature tinting, something waxing and something plucking. I can’t remember which was which, but she came back fluttering her eyelashes and looking longingly at me (as a joke). She can be such a temptress !

The other day I was knitting on my scarf project (I have done about 1 inch of the scarf) and according to Tracy I was knitting too tight. Well, I didn’t see the problem with this until moments later, when one of Marie’s knitting needles splintered and shot itself all over our living room in many pieces.

I had called the “new needle” hotline (Marie) and she came up trumps today with new needles. METAL ONES !

Thanks Marie.

I am in the process of writing Days 2 to 12 of the blog which are very sparse. Marie and I sat down and collated our notes of the first 2 weeks and then it was time for her to leave on the bus to Middlesbrough.

Tonight is Lasagne and Chips. Last night was Lasagne, Salad and Garlic Bread…..GARLIC…………….BRREEAAADDD……………….. (Peter Kay fans will know what I mean).