Sunday 16th November 2008

Well, things appear to be moving at last. Spoke to a VERY nice lady in the Coroner's Office, mainly to let them know the family voted for no public inquest, but also to mention that we had not yet heard anything about the Health Authority's internal enquiry. She was right on the ball with that one....apparently the Coroner HAS recieved a copy of the report, so really now IS in possession of all the facts. Said report is in the process of being sent out to the family, so I expect to see it soon. However, because we dispensed with the public inquest, that nice lady made things HAPPEN. Proper death certificates will be issued soonest, but she must have done a lot more, because David got a call from Jude's workplace telling him that funds that had been held up because of all this legal crap, had now been released to his account. Specifically, Widow and Dependants benefits (or widower), and backpaid. Thank goodness!! Helping him out was KILLING us.

Sooo...David is now actively hunting for a car. And I do mean ACTIVELY. It's the one single thing that would help most around here, him being mobile again. Now that things are moving, maybe we can get the life insurance / mortgage thing sorted out. THAT would be a tremendous help to him, money wise. I am desperate that he hangs on to his house, especially in the current economic climate. He'd never be able to afford a new house on his own if he lost this one because of not being able to pay the mortgage.

All in all, things are starting to pick up. I am SO pleased about that!!

On to other things. Still LOVING the slow cooker.......that thing is pure bloody magic! Not only because things come out tasting so good, but also because it relieves the CONGESTION that happened around dinner time, here. The period from (say) 4pm to 6pm, when we would normally have been struggling to prepare a dinner AND deal with kidlings was always a fraught time :). Plus, I can now cook Kleftico and it comes out somewhere near like it should .

Thought for the day. Disappointment is picking a nice big fat garlic clove, peeling it........and then finding its nothing but a lot of LITTLE cloves. Man, that really pisses me off

Onward and upward....