list 100 things for which I am grateful

this morning on his last day in Yokahama, Japan. Email redolent with sadness at leaving his girlfriend behind.

Son is sweet and loving in the email, looking forward to seeing us.

with DEAR colleague and friend ZK.

No other visitors, so we could talk about daughter’s visit to her in hospital in London, her own daughter’s chats with me, the work I have been doing for her while she has been ill, plans for future work, how she is doing and how she needs to look after herself.

She was pleased to see me and I was thrilled to see her.

after three months away ill.

piece of piano and flute music playing on the radio.

It is lifting my sprits even though I feel stressed.

Made a new sign for my flying lady bench, the bench he wrote a short story about. (He named her Sibongile.) The sign has her name and a leaf pattern on it. It is made of foam pasted to polystyrene.

I think I should try to make it more permanent.

carved from a gnarly twisted slender branch, and purchased from the roadside craftsperson in Swaziland, had disappeared.

But the gardener, Ben, had decided to suspend the snake from a tree near the swimming pool.

Yay!

He looks very realistic, twisted over the branches!

and the accountant is going to do the invoices tomrrow morning.

Have also printed out all the supporting documentation – whi8ch used almost a ream of paper!

A TEDIOUS job completed.

and he reacted very well. It did not cause a split in the family or a division with our daughter.

He spoke to her and she is thrilled that he is okay about it.

She said to him that we are the most fabulous parents.

Yay!

visited my colleague who is ill in hospital in London.

She chatted for about an hour and a bit.

Thanks, Helmi.

during an intriguing phone call, that was quite difficult because we were discussing something that her dad does not know about, with him sitting next to me, that I am

FABULOUS.

How’s that?