a day at the doctors ..and

Went to Brisbane to see my specialist - for the thyroid problem which was brought on by the step-daughter shifting in for a few days and staying ten weeks.

All pretty much OK with the doctor - more tests and scans and a warning to stay as stress free as possible.

Got home and the step-son and his wife and the grand daughter had come up from Melbourne. By bus. With full intention of moving in - because our lounge room floor is empty.

Our house is tiny, it's designed for two people and is quite comfortable for two people.

Got in the poo when I said that they weren't staying here. They got the shits and took off to a motel.

I couldn't go through another christmas.

My mouth didn't help matters by blaming little sister for the new ones not being allowed to live here. Mentioned things like the thousands she owes us (written off but a good point scorer as far as I'm concerned) about her tantrums, about her hitting an 8 month old baby which caused one of the tantrums when I told her to treat him like an 8 month old, about the police being called by neighbours a street away, about her almost losing the baby to the police about the police wanting to section her, about the fits SWMBO found, ..... I did go on a bit much, my excuse was a full day on public transport and sitting around a doctors surgery and my bung hips, broken back and missing bits of my pelvis. Maybe the pommie in me came out too - whinging??

Did I tell you I've got 10% or more of my pelvis missing? And four doctors saw the X-ray and didn't notice it - they were more concerned about the osteo spurs on the ball joint and the old hair-line fracture near the ball joint, They missed the missing 10%!

Anyway they spent the night at a motel and She Who Must Be Obeyed has gone around there this AM.

I can imagine the frantic phone calls between SD and SS last night about "told you so". LOL

Gardens going well, bit of a flood with the rains - 20mm in 20 minutes on Wednesday and 38mm last night, but things are green and growing.

Planted a heap of stuff - planted out some lettuce seedlings from a seed raising box, planted seeds for a small black tomato, purple carrots, Egyptian spinach, fordhook silverbeet, celery, pomello and strawberry spinach.