Well, working my way backwards - the above photo is from this morning when Helen and I met her lovely friend Stephen at the Groove cafe in Nightcliff. She has taken to enjoying the odd weak latte again and being a coffee aficionado myself I am keen to encourage this development.Since I returned last Thursday Helen and I have been going along fairly peacefully. She has received lovely cards and packages from Judith, Peter and Joyce and Dorothy and enjoyed a few phone catch ups with distant friends and family. On Saturday morning I decided to take her out to a cafe (the coffee interest again) and we had a funny sequence of events where we went to the coffee-shop where Helen's friends tend to congregate after Aqua Aerobics, found no-one there and decided on the spur of the moment to go to Frillies in Nightcliff instead. When we arrived there there wasn't anyone much we knew but we decided to stay anyway and after a few minutes Kaye and Shirley arrived having just gone looking for Helen at her own house after Aqua! I thought this was very impressive of them to intuit we might be at Frillies as it is the first time we have done anything so spur of the moment.
Saturday night Helen, Bilha, Shirley and I made an excursion to the Darwin Entertainment Centre - all dressed up!
We saw a play written and performed by Alan Hopgood entitled" 4 Funerals in 1 day" which was about palliative care, death and dying and was followed by a forum on palliative care issues with the audience and an expert local panel. It was pretty great - fun as a performance and thought provoking as well. Afterward Helen reaped the benefits of wheelchair travel as the actor came over to give her a hug and some special attention. A shame about her diminished vision as he is a pretty spunky 76 year old but Shirley, Bilha and I described him to her on the way home.
We saw a play written and performed by Alan Hopgood entitled" 4 Funerals in 1 day" which was about palliative care, death and dying and was followed by a forum on palliative care issues with the audience and an expert local panel. It was pretty great - fun as a performance and thought provoking as well. Afterward Helen reaped the benefits of wheelchair travel as the actor came over to give her a hug and some special attention. A shame about her diminished vision as he is a pretty spunky 76 year old but Shirley, Bilha and I described him to her on the way home.Helen and I are on our own this week - Louis is in Brisbane and I think will return next Sunday night. Monday the 11th I start fulltime work in Darwin for a month.
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