@Margaret63 - thanks for your response - the water question is in the process of resolving itself - have all my insurances with RAC - and I rang them today and they seem very helpful - they have already contacted some companies, who will come round and see what can be done.
@NoBoDe is a different person - I am so glad I persevered with him - I am one of the few people who calls him every day (he sometimes calls me) and he tells his 'stories' too. He was quite 'wise' around the confusing advice and 'help' he got in hospital but managed to work his charm on two important nursing supervisors (or head nurses with some clout) - so he won't be forgotten in his hide-out. Today he rang me from his car, speaking without the help of oxygen, but he does carry it now in his car - but was taught certain breathing techniques which allow him to be free of the pesky bottles for a while. I do hope he will be around when his Mother's 'Statue' is revealed and dedicated in Canberra - I hope to go over there for the occasion as well, as he can no longer fly to see me.
Lilycat is back to her 'old self' but it took a while - it almost seemed she had such a shock, that her brain had to slowly recover all its memories, bit by bit - now she comes into my 'studio' again and sits on her favourite chair, and when I go to bed, she sits in my 'seat' - I won't allow her into the bedroom, because she wee,eeed in there once - and cat's wee! yikes! - plus they go back to the same place.
She still needs to remember the routine, which was her last trick: - she'd come in late in the evening, look around with an expectant air, expressively 'meeeauw' to say: 'I am here now!" - then leap onto my computer table, make her way round the messy back of my computer - jump on the arm of my settee, and then on a small 'pouffe' I have in front of it especially for her - and when she felt particularly smoochy, she'd come round to the other arm of the settee, where I am sitting, purrrr away, and then clamber onto the back and lean against my head. That was 'full-on' cat love as far as Lilycat is concerned. From a former wild cat that is really something! How are your pussycats???
I hope you are well, too, and bearing up under the strain of the stock market 'doing its thing'. Tau ❤️
