Busy Days

I've had a couple of weeks off from teaching but I seem to be more busy!
Spent a day moving furniture, again! Also packed up boxes to take to MIL's
house. I just have too much stuff here, books than nobody reads, pots and pans
that have worn out and clothes that are too small!  I know dumping the stuff in
MIL's storage place isn't the best thing but at the moment I don't know what else to do!
Mikey, Christopher and I drove out to MIL's! It always depresses me to go there.
She had the house built about 25 years go but she hasn't taken care of it at all. It's a mess
inside and out, needs a good paint job, even cleaning the windows would help, She
really can't take care of herself, she had a massive bruise down the side of her
face, another fall. And there is nothing we can do about it, she passed the cognitive
test so the welfare system can't place her in a home. The fact that she has limited
mobility and another serious fall could kill her doesn't factor in!
Went shopping yesterday, I bought fish on Sunday and even though it was in a
cooler bag, on ice it smelt really bad. David called the supermarket and they told
us to bring the receipt and get our money back. I was a bit upset at not having fish
the other day, I really fancied it!  But the supermarket service was good, no questions asked
they just refunded us!
Today is David's birthday, so going to have some fun with the kids today!  Have to go to
the hospital for another check up but after that we will have nice dinner, cake and watch
some movie!
The kittens are growing well.  They have taken to using the litter box, couple of little
accidents! I went to put my shoes on the other day and found a small puddle, of course
it had to be my shoe that one of them peed in!

Out and About

The other day Hannah and I went to the city.  Just looking around, nice lunch!
Simple day out for us!  Turned into a real adventure!  I am hopeless at
navigating train stations and trains!  And it's not just because my Japanese is
bad the same happens in the UK. I just don't get trains!  We arrived at the station, got
our tickets and went to the platform. Hannah is looking at the board and says that
she thinks we can't get on the train that is coming because it is reserved seats only.
When the train arrives it turns out to be the expensive express train.  We then decided to go back to
the office and ask for help.  We were waiting at the wrong platform.  We finally got to
the city, but then had to get the subway to the place Hannah wanted to go!
Again not good with subways! In London last year I got lost two or three times
on the Underground!  I've only used this subway twice before, but not too bad.
The store Hannah wanted to visit was the Takarazuka store. Takarazuka is an all
female musical theatre company, this is a link to Wikipedia about them  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takarazuka_Revue

She shopped for a while, spent a fortune but she was happy!  We then went and had lunch.
Rather nice hamburger steak!
Getting back also turned into an adventure!  We got off at the wrong station!  Just one
station before we should get off!  Poor David had to drive to pick us up, not very far

but the station was in the middle of a housing development with a lot of narrow and
one way roads.  I don't like trains!!!!

poster for a musical

It's hot waiting for trains

Nice lunch

Yesterday was also out and about. City Hall, Tax Office, shopping and Hannah's school.
Talk about crazy morning, I was hoping everything could be done in about one hour, reality
took 3 hours.  Never mind some things that I had been putting off are finished which is good!

The kittens are growing.  We got them a litter box last week and so far only one accident, not
bad.  This is what I find in the morning!

Sleeping in the corridor!