Sunday 7th August

Post date: 07-Aug-2016 19:08:16

We had a lovely day with Cousin Joey and his family. His youngest doesn’t seem much older than Lucy, although he must be 20, I suppose. Dominic is studying English Literature and Religious Studies at Lancaster University. I asked him what he was planning to do with it afterwards and he said he thought maybe teaching. Aunty Rose (Joey’s mother) is living with them. She’s remarkably well for her 86 years, but extremely deaf, which makes talking to her very tiring.

Peter didn’t feel comfortable about going to a catholic mass, so he stayed with Aunty Rose while the rest of us went. Ruth seemed pleased that all three of their kids came along – I rather suspect that usually they each prefer to volunteer to look after their grandmother!

Joey’s daughter, Chloe, is a Play Specialist at Alder Hey. She’s been telling me all about the new hospital that they’ve built there now to replace the one that I got taken to when I was four and cracked my head open falling off the “spider’s web” roundabout in the park. I remember that there was a long corridor there and it was built on a slope so that, when I dropped a rubber ball out of my pocket by mistake, it rolled away, gathering speed as it went and my dad had to go running after it.

Joey’s oldest, James, is an electrician. With Joey being a plumber, they get to work together on quite a lot of jobs – fitting central heating, for example.

In the afternoon, we went to see Aunty Dot in the Care Home in Wavertree where she lives now. She was my Dad’s only unmarried sister, so she was the one who helped out most when my Mam was ill. She’s 97 and very frail, but she seems to have retained her mental faculties and had not difficulty remembering who I was.

Dom and Lucy went to their church youth group in the evening. I have a feeling that Dom is rather smitten with Lucy – I must make sure he remembers that she’s only 16!

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