Croix Parler

[Croix]

I'd like to use this pace for miscellaneous matters that don't fit elsewhere

Thanks

Croix

[Moonstruck]

Dear Croix....Like Eagle Ray I love the movie Brassed Off...fabulous British actors...I always get a more"alive" feeling when I hear Wiliam Tell Overture as they played in the final of the competition.     { Croix....the Big Day is here....I know you wish me well......)

[mmMekitty]

I wish you well, too, Moon!

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[Eagle Ray]

Hello Moon, MK and Croix,

I want to wish you well too Moon, even though I don’t know what it’s for. I wish you the best.

MK, I really understand you feeling ambivalent about getting much more help than you actually want. I’m quite protective of my personal space so I too would feel that way. I think it’s ok to specify your preference for the number of hours you have someone there. You could get them to clarify their reasoning too. People can have different priorities and ideas about what needs to be done. I hope you can work something out that suits you.

Take care All,

ER

[Croix]

Dear MK and all~

"Uncle Albert" seems a sad apology for most of he time, wiht a few cryptic references towards the end. I think for sad I"d prefer "Eleanor Rigby".

With your OT it might be a good thing that you are assessed as being in need of a fair bit. if it gets you on the right plan you may well be able to persuade whoever comes to do the work to do things that leave you your space.

I'm afraid my time away from BB involved travel and was very taxing, however I'm back in front of the wood fire being supervised by Sumo, so all is well.

ER, I'd have thought a soggy woolen tail-cover might be a tad un-stabilizing, however maybe worth a try. Do rays wear ear-muffs?

Croix

[Croix]

Dear Moon~

I'm glad you liked the movie too, a poignant tale but with excellent performances by Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor, and yes that all brass version of William Tell is just about overpowering.

I don't need to wish you luck in you upcoming bowling adventure, your professionalism will see you though with honours.

Croix

[Eagle Ray]

Hello All,

MK, reflecting on Croix’s comments, I think that might be a good approach - allow for getting more from the assessment and then there is the option of scaling things back if it’s more than you need or want. That way there’s more help available if needed, but hopefully an option to reduce the hours etc if that’s your preference. It just might mean there are more options for things you can ask for down the track, be funded for, etc. Rather than necessarily someone being in your home for more hours than you’d like, the support might take the form of something else you’d prefer, maybe more outings or whatever it is you feel would help. I hope there is scope for you to specify whatever it is that would be of most benefit for you.

Croix, I did indeed wonder about the weight of a woolly tail covering. It does start to seem a tad impractical. Where it might come in handy is when I decide to sunbathe on the iceberg, though perhaps a woollen mat would be better for that. I’m not as well insulated as a walrus so I imagine that would make me more comfortable upon the ice. My ears are kind of flat on top of my head like my eyes, so as far as ear muffs go, I think I will need some velcro attachments. In fact some velcro sunglasses might help with glare off the ice. I will be a cool, trendy eagle ray with my Ray-ban sunglasses. Hee hee 😎 

And Moon, wishing you bowling success, in whatever form of bowling you are undertaking (ten pin, lawn, cricket etc).

[Croix]

Dear ER and All~

The type of bowling Moon does is bowl over her admirers:)

Actually you captured my exact intent in getting the best deal for MK, as you point out it can also be underutilized or diverted into other necessary things wiht the cooperation of the support prison. Plus it might make future applications easier.

I'm sure you will look ultra cool in your Gucci earmuffs and Ray-Ban shades while relaxing on your Calvin Klein mohair blanket sipping your - um I'm not sure what rays drink? - cocktail. A Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster™ perhaps?

Croix

(™ Zaphod Beeblebrox)

[Eagle Ray]

Dear Croix, MK and Moon,

That makes great sense that Moon is bowling over her admirers. She is truly radiant!

With LRC’s new stylish hair curling and my new stingray styling the iceberg is going to be the fashion centre of the Antarctic! I wonder if you would like some lovely crochet coverings for your tusks?

Ah the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster! You have led me to revisit a clip from the original Hitch Hiker’s TV series and I found this wonderful quote from Zaphod:

Never drink more than two Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters unless you are a thirty ton mega elephant with bronchial pneumonia. 🤣

I wonder how many a walrus can drink?

 I had a housemate who sometimes used to announce his entrance into the kitchen at breakfast by saying, “I’m feeling rather melancholy today” in the exact monotone of Marvin the Robot. He would then cheer himself up by making his morning coffee which he said was a great antidote for melancholy.

[mmMekitty]

Yeah, Croix & ER, I think you are right. The way the OT wrote her assessments, some of the things she wrote, have got under my skin, has been somewhat triggering. I've been feeling like my (ex-)step-mother is standing, staring over my shoulder again, just like she actually did, ready, (maybe eager), to pounce. I feel as if the OT had been there, spotting, even looking for, the tiniest things to find fault with.

I have to see her again Monday & I've been nervous these last couple days.

I'm not so good at being assertive & speaking up for myself. & now, I don't know why she is seeing me again this Monday. I made the appointment, spoke with her on the phone myself, but I can't remember why I have this appointment. That feels embarrassing in itself. What wil she think, if she, in her casual way, just drops in the question, expecting me to tell her, to demonstrate I recall when I don't. 

.... [a few minutes later] Oh, yes, I do remember.: she has a few things to show me, things to help around in the home, maybe. I'm guessing I've seen some of the things before, & for one reason or another, I've not wanted to use them. We'll see. 

Croix, I'm sorry your trip away was exhausting. On the bright side, that would make returning home, to the fireplace, all the more enjoyable, eh?

This afternoon, when I had finished my lunch, I found SBS was showing 'Oliver!', the old musical version from England, complete with an 'INTERMISSION' sigh, followed by a instrumental medley of songs from the movie, with black screen, for a few minutes before returning to the movie proper. That seemed so surreal, so funny!

Hugzies

mmMekitty

[Croix]

Dear MK, ED, Moon and all~

MK: I'm glad you remembered the reason, it can be quite upsetting to have to wait without knowing why. I'm sure you would have thought already of most opportunities to ease matters in the home, but you never know, a new improved mousetrap may have been invented.

I always liked Oliver Reed as Bill Sykes in that version.

ER: My magnificent extended dentition is the object of admiration by many females of my species and anything to dim thier luster would not be appropriate:)

I'm not sure comparing me wiht "a thirty ton mega elephant with bronchial pneumonia." is as flattering as it might be. As this beverage has also been described as ""the alcoholic equivalent to a mugging; expensive and bad for the head." I think I"ll stick to something less fraught with peril.

Yes, it is great to be back home, even Sumo opened an eye in greeting.

Moon: I'm all agog to hear of your bowling event

Croix