Good afternoon Bloggets. It’s boiling hot here and we are
expected to have a very hot weekend with the start of next week to be even
hotter. I’m melting right now. Boy Wonder has no air conditioning at work or
even a fan so he wasn’t too pleased to see the man with the sun hat on! Having
said that, he has a fifteen-minute walk to work and back after parking his car,
so if it rains, it wouldn’t be good!
I’m sitting with a cup of tea from a teapot Mr. Clock bought
me years ago. I think it’s a Japanese teapot, with a cane handle and the handle
you pour from is like a basket handle or handbag, in other words, it’s not
solid. But, surprisingly, it’s very easy to pour from and I am grateful for
such a lovely gift.
Hub working from home today, so not seen much of him apart
from handing him cups of tea and coffee. And even that, he was on a phone call.
This seems to be the thing now, Friday’s is phone day. He got up today at half
seven. No transport to work why so early? Well this is his new job, loads to
do. His journey to Newcastle my home town was really good, his staff were very professional
in Hubs words he had to deliver. What ever they were.
I have just had a man at my door from St John Ambulance.
Wanting money but now days it’s all done by card. I don’t like giving my details
on the door step about my bank, so I took a card and I will make sure I will
set up a direct debit monthly as I know such a service is a gift for us. They
go into schools now and are trying to teach children the basic first aid. I
really feel this should be on the educational curriculum, but it’s not and the
service get no funding for such things from our Government. After watching the
program Ambulance, which follows a particular team in one area for only 12
hours, wow, seriously, the work the Ambulance guys and gals do, is nothing
short of heroic!
I have nothing but 100 per cent admiration for our Ambulance
workers. They are nurses, social workers, Doctors and sometimes surgeons.
Peacemakers and friends to those who need them. As for the people who take the
calls? Oh, my, they are so calm and extremely professional.
This man said you can pay as little as £3 per month to help
to support them. £3 Bloggets, that is a cup of coffee in a café. Once per
month?
Please understand where my huge passion comes from. Why is
it that people things, that save lives, get no Government funding? Like Life
guards/boats RNLI!
Take a look at their shop link below, they have some cute
gifts you can buy or there is a link to donate. These guys give their free time
to us.
Back to our St John Ambulance workers, seriously, they
really are amazing people. So calm, kind and knowledgeable I really don’t think
they get the respect they deserve. One day we may need these people. They may
save our lives or a loved one’s life. Please at least give a listen or look at
their website? What is £3? Not even half a packet of cigarettes. There link is
below too.
And finally, talking of life changers. Guide Dogs. Our dogs
do what they do because they want to. You can’t force a dog to do something.
Believe me, this is why there are dogs who don’t go forward to be fully
qualified working dogs. And what does a guide dog do? Gets people who have such
poor sight or no vision at all out of the house. Even if it’s for ten minutes
per day. What can happen in those ten minutes? People who normally in the house
going crazy because they haven’t been out in days, weeks months even years, suddenly
with the help of a guide dog, are able to feel fresh air. Get to the shop for a
bottle of milk. Feel worth something because they have managed to provide for
the family no need to ask their partner now to buy whatever as they can do it.
They can call in at the chemist for a prescription. Their partner may be
working the hours that the chemist is open, so if the person with the guide dog
can get to the chemist in these hours, wow, only someone who has walked in such
shoes will understand how important that feeling is. We may meet with someone
who just says hello. A person who has recently gone blind within two years, may
not have spoken to many people at all, and for a cheerful hello, no one will
know how good that feels unless again, they have walked in those shoes. We may
go out for ten minutes per day, we may see the same person each day, build up a
relationship with just by saying hello, and next thing, they may ask us if we
want to go for a coffee? Join a group or gym? And hey, there’s our new friend. Then
we meet more friends who ask us if we would like to go out with them somewhere.
And then as I have spoken about before, that ten minutes we could take our
children to school. We are not at home worrying if the phone rings, our children/child
is ill needs to come from school. Who will collect them? I can tell you Bloggets,
as a blind parent there is not one per cent of help for such emergencies. If our
children are blind, then there is more help, but for us, with a sighted child,
no, no help at all. So, we can be at home knowing that ten-minute walk is a
phone call away. No stress no worries. We don’t want a taxi driver taking our
children to school. We are the parents and we need to know our children are
safe at school.
That ten minutes’ walk can take us to the Doctors and
dentist. If you are sighted please think about your own lives. I have a friend who
has been telling me how she has been driven crazy this week without her car. Excuse
me? Do you know who you are talking with? You don’t have a car for one week and
all hell breaks out? I have never been able to drive. You can see to walk. Get over
yourself. Another person I know often complains that she has been stuck in the
house all day waiting for a workman to come… one day? Try three years. One day
God forbid, you may need a guide dog. Guide Dogs is a charity. Again, only if
you step in the shoes of others, will you fully understand where I’m coming
from. One day, my shoes may fit you!
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