I’m still not writing here often. I want to but it’s hard to get down to it. It’s often hard nowadays to do anything other than day to day things like looking after myself and doing basic house work; things I can do mechanically. I don’t like being alone here. Hubby is still spending 4 nights in Cardiff and 3 here each week. It gets harder as the nights draw in. It’s not so bad in the daytime but I don’t like being alone after dark. I’m not sure why.
A very sad thing happened here 3 days ago. Hubby was here and we went to town to do our shopping. We left about 3.30. When we were driving back I saw 2 buses marked Railway Transport. I said to Hubby that there must be a problem on the railway and they’ve stopped the trains. When we got to our village we saw several police vehicles. I didn’t connect the 2 things and thought there must have been a robbery.
I didn’t think any more of it until Wednesday evening when I saw a local news report on Facebook. Someone had been killed by a train and it looked like a suicide. I can see the old station from our house which is where the police cars were parked. I keep thinking of that poor person and their family. I still don’t know their name. It could even be someone we know.
Hubby and I managed to get away together for a few days in September. We stayed at a caravan site at Pendine Sands on the South Wales coast. For a while we thought we may not be able to go on this trip. Louise has not been well. At the beginning of September she started getting a lot of severe stomach pains and some bleeding. She was worried that her ovarian cyst had burst. She went to her GP who sent her straight to a & e. She, Hubby and Thomas were there waiting to be seen until the early hours.
Hubby and I had been planning to go away that weekend to Staffordshire where our John Denver club was having a get together. I was all packed, everything ready, when Louise sent me a message about what had happened and that the hospital wanted her back on the Friday for tests. It was so disappointing and , of course, I was worried about Louise. After a follow up visit the hospital said it probably wasn’t serious but they wanted to see her again the following week so we thought we may have to cancel our trip to the coast as well. Fortunately they gave her the all clear on the following visit.
We stayed 3 nights and had a lovely time. After several weeks of wet weather it turned warm and sunny. On our first full day there, after a walk on the beach, we had a fish and chips lunch at an outdoor cafe overlooking the sea. Then, in the afternoon we visited the new Museum of Land Speed which tells the history of the world land Speed records of the 1920s which were held on Pendine’s 7 mile long beach. I have written before about how my grandfather was a mechanic with Sunbeam cars and he was there for several of the record events.
On our second day we drove along the coast road through Amroth to Wiseman’s
Bridge. Hubby and I stayed near there many years ago when Louise was a baby and Hubby used to take 4 year old Chris to play on that beach every morning while I was getting myself and our new baby fed and ready for the day. On our way home the next day we stopped for a while at Laugharne, a place I fell in love with several years ago. It was our first brief holiday together for 4 years and so good to get away.
Tonight is Halloween. Tony and Justeen are going to a fancy dress party. Chris and Andrea are going to a big firework display tomorrow evening. They asked if I wanted to go but I said I no longer relish being outside on cold autumn evenings. Chris said I must be getting old! He’s right about that!
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