My Nana makes the Roman Catholic Church look light-hearted

This blog comes with a caveat: it's family.
Now, to start on a much lighter note, I have prefixed this story with a delightfully unrelated image of me meeting a really nice cow (unlike Dr's receptionists) at the Somerset Show in 2009. I like how my hair matches and she had this huge soft warm drippy nose that made my heart melt. Remind me of this next time we have steak.

Ok, enough digression: I relocated a few years ago for uni and never returned. Not unusual, but then I left it over 3 years before I went back to Yorkshire and there were a few disgruntled relatives to put the hours in with. I did try to pre-arrange seeing my nana and grandad (so often nana misinterpreted my harrasment as requesting a place to stay, which it certainly wasn't - I had every intention of going out and coming in in the early hours and had accommodation sorted!); they were very "any weekend is fine" about it and made it hard to pin them down to a time and date so I figured I'd just call when I got there. The rest of the day and a half I had at home was crammed with visiting people so I tried to arrange to meet n&g at my auntie's house; when I arrived she said G-dad had had a bad turn and so he wasn't even out of bed yet. I appreciate that's a long-winded part to the story but it's necessary.

So, long story short, I returned back to the West Country to receive a guilt-ridden letter from my nana saying how I'd missed G-dad and how he took a bad turn after I left and had I bothered to visit I'd have found him well (technically lies, but I see her angle). I replied with a carefully drafted (and re-drafted, and proof read) letter apologising and explaining I had tried. I also, after a brief discussion with ym mum, put in a passive-aggresive "I hope you managed to see all the family who live close by over Easter" -since I know full well the other G-kids don't visit, or write every other week for the past 6 years like I have (get in).

Mum phoned last night: G-dad was taken into hospital after collapsing with pneumonia and another infection. I can't get home again until mid-May :( I'll keep you posted.

In other news: I had an eye test today. There are many things wrong with me but as it turns out my eyes are not one of them 8)