Halo

Thankfully, I’m feeling a lot better today, and the overnight results certainly lift the spirit. We do stay up until about 1.30, but an all-nighter is beyond me. Still, it’s pretty clear how things are going - thankfully. 

Today’s the day for G’s mum to visit the residential home and things go very well. We’ve moved from feeling this would be the wrong move for her to accepting this may be what she needs, and she seems very positive about her day. So now it’s a case of moving into the practicalities of trial periods, contracts etc. 

This means I’m left to take over G’s ‘duties’ for the afternoon - helping our neighbour Terry with his candy floss stall at a school fete! Basically, this means taking the money and preparing the measure of luridly coloured sugar for the next customer while Terry gets on with the actual sugar spinning. It’s incredibly popular with long queues forming for the duration of the event. I’ve insisted on having a chair as I know my back won’t cope with standing for even a short time, and I enjoy the interactions with all these excited children as they watch their candy floss being prepared. Parents joke about just how long it will take for these sugar highs to wear off! 

As all this is going on, one little girl remarks to her mum ‘Look at that big circle round the sun,’ mum looks, and so do I, standing up to look at the sky behind me. It’s a perfect halo, a phenomenon I’ve never seen before. Of course, I don’t have my camera with me, but I grab my phone and take this shot - my main today. As an extra, there’s an excited little boy watching his candy floss being made.