I woke up to 6000 followers! It seems only a short time since I thanked everyone for the 5000 followers!

I have to apologise to my mentorship group for not having anything for them to do in the last week, but as you can probably understand, we've been a little stressed. Explanation here.

Trev's mum broke her hip and had to have an operation. Trev's sister is frail (13 years older than he is) and cannot drive to the hospital herself. Trev has been going straight from work in an evening to pick up his dad and sister (if she hasn't got a lift to the hospital earlier in the day) and taking them to visit. Picking me up on the way through, we've not had chance to sit down until almost 8pm.

Chattering away like they haven't been speaking on the phone that morning...

I've also been visiting in the day, to break-up the day more than anything.

Trev's parents have always been there for us and now it really is our turn - if they let us help, of course. They're both in their mid-90s and independent!

Trev's parents speak on the phone for an hour or more every day - and that's why they're still together in my opinion, they can talk and talk to each other. They really are soulmates. They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary last year.

Our son has been staying overnight at his grandad's 'just in case', making his breakfast and making sure he takes his medication (he doesn't like taking it, so it's sometimes a battle of wills).

Mum-in-Law may be moved to another hospital that specialises in physio and rehabilitation for such injuries.

She's finally realised that she's been doing far too much - making a cuppa every lunch time for Trev, cooking a full meal for her granddaughter and great-granddaughter once a week, making cakes, cookies etc for the guides, amongst other things.

She now acknowledges that she has earned the right to sit back and allow others to help take care of them. She will only make food for her and her husband and she's promised to let other people do things for them, whereas before, she refused (and she's a determined lady!).

Trev will still be going there at lunch but instead of his mum making his cup of tea, he'll be going to make them their cup of tea (and lunch too, if we can persuade them).

Still no news on when she'll be fit enough to be allowed back home, but we have fingers crossed that it will be soon.

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In other news...

I'm coming up to the 50th episode of Cobalt Nights (still not sure of that title and the cover image needs work).

You can start reading from the beginning using the links below.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26, part 27, Part 28, Part 29, Part 30 Part 31 Part 32 Part 34 Part 35 Part 36 Part 37 Part 38 Part 39 Part 40 Part 41 Part 42 Part 43 Part 44 Part 45 Part 46 Part 47 Part 48 Part 49