Holidays

I am away today to The Bellarine to look after Sister's, Bone Doctor's and Jo's cats. I will pick them up from a cattery (yes I know they aren't called that now. I can't think of the right name) along the way where they have been for two days. 

Bone Doctor's grandmother will turn 101. Her daughter, BD's mother, has MS and doesn't have too long to live. The last time BD was in northern Queensland was for her grandma's 100th. Her grandmother is a little doolally but still recognises family. It is sad about BD's mother. She was a nurse and travelled the world in weird places, like Mongolia, Russia but none of the big cities, deepest and darkest Africa, staying in favelas in South America, and Antarctica. 

Somehow, I sent my dead in bed neighbour an sms this morning that went to Bone Doctor. I quickly deleted it but it was later revealed, I was too slow to delete and she saw it and replied to me who said, I didn't know where Sister was visiting. 

I've finally worked out the difference between Sunshine and Sunbury, not yet Whittlesea and Winchelsea, and not quite Toowoomba and Townsville. The latter is where BD's grandmother lives and the former has pretty gardens with lots of flowers and sits upon an escarpment. From gay media, I remember Townsville as being very homophobic in the 1990s.

Two nights before I leave Sister's place after cat sitting, Phyllis and Kosov will come down by train and I'll pick them up from the station and they'll stay two nights. I don't normally take the car out at night at home, as I like to have a drink or two, but with dark arriving at 5pm, I will give Phyllis some night time driving experience. My headlights dim automatically, but I wonder if he needs to know how to dim lights by his left foot pushing a floor button, or operating a steering wheel stalk. 

In theory, I will have plenty of time to blog and comment, which I don't normally do when I am away from my desktop. My excuse was that it was unfair to Ray when away to be too focused on the matters of the internet. But maybe I will try a little bit during this break. 

I try to make the best of my life and I adore having the very loving Phyllis and Kosov in my life, but I feel so lost and purposeless without Ray. Nevertheless, I remind myself that I am a very privileged person in this world, mostly by luck of birth and the country I live in. See ya whenever.