It’s quite difficult for me to lower Grandma down her front steps in her wheelchair; Grandma is not heavy but her wheelchair is, and I’m always worried that I will slip or fall just as I’m negotiating the bigger of the two steps. Assisting her to walk down the steps is no longer an option, not by myself anyway. So I contacted Social Work with a view to installing a ramp. The social worker who came round to assess the situation yesterday was absolutely lovely, but our situation is apparently not desperate enough to qualify and even if we were she explained that the council ramps are very substantial and bulky. However she suggested that she might be able to find a different kind of ramp, and Grandma told me that she came back later in the afternoon and Grandma could see her measuring the steps. So I’m hopeful.
Today Davie was studying hard and has decided to head back to Dundee tomorrow so that he can get back to studying at the University library.
This evening Davie and I watched, on BBC Scotland, the episode of Breaking the News that we saw being recorded yesterday. We were fascinated by what parts and where it had been cut and spliced, and we thought they had altered the applause so that it started quicker, whereas we remembered it as taking longer to get started. It was amazing how they had condensed it, and it did make it sharper and funnier. But most excitingly, we hadn’t realised that there had been a camera at the back of the hall as well as the ones at the front, and from time to time we were treated to a clear view of the back of both of our heads!
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