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What We Have Learnt Over The Past 3 Weeks?

We have learnt that panic attacks at 3 am are just that, not heart attacks.

We have learnt that the gentlest creatures are called nurses and they work in hospitals

We have learnt that the sharp things sticking into your back in the middle of the night are the cat’s feet!

We have learnt that...

We have learnt to send out multiple text messages to friends and family

We have learnt that Intensive Care nurses are angels in disguise

We have learnt that eating crackers and cheese at 9.30 pm gives you weird dreams

We have learnt that tubes and other medical paraphernalia are not scary just interesting

We have learnt that a nice fine day...

We came home Wednesday to see a strange cat flying out of the cat door. Inside there were feathers everywhere and our cat perched on the back of the sofa saying ‘it wasn’t me, it wasn’t me’.

A partly plucked Waxeye was irately bouncing up and down on the windowsill trying to get out. Once again I am totally amazed at just how resilient...

I have been kind to perfect strangers for several hours today. Escorted one couple to their car protecting them with my umbrella from the heavy rain that Wellington is awash with. Let a motorist in the very busy Queensgate mall know that we were leaving and our car-park would be free for her to take. Offered to take several elderly women to their...

We are getting more junk mail up here on the hill than when we lived in the valley. It arrives on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights. Lots of more interesting fliers, booklets and pamphlets to read. Nothing quite like settling down on a wet night to scan through what has arrived in the mailbox that evening.

Now down in the valley we got the low...