Dalmatian Bellflowers

This morning I'd just finished doing yoga when my phone rang. 

It was the care home manager, to break the sad news that my Mum had passed away this morning. It was a shock of course, but kind of not entirely unexpected. Her health had deteriorated a lot over the past six weeks or so...

I called Brian and all the kids, but that's all I can do for now, until the funeral home gets in touch. We were not close. I always seemed to fall short of what she wanted in a daughter, and she probably thought she was helping me by making sure I was always aware of that. And with the awful disease that is dementia, it's been many years since she was truly "her". The commercials for the dementia charity are not wrong when they say that sufferers of the disease die many times before their final death. She died a month short of her 92nd birthday, and was diagnosed with dementia in her early 70's.

There was drama on our street today too, with a fire in a house about 70 metres away from us. There were fortunately no casualties, but it took them a long time to extinguish the fire. There were many fire engines, police vehicles, paramedics and an ambulance. They left the elderly lady resident sitting on an armchair in the street waiting for someone to come and secure the property, as it wasn't safe to go back inside. Some of her family came to wait with her.

I tried to order repeats of my new medication today, to find that I couldn't do it on the website. It turned out that although I'd not ordered them when I ordered my thyroid tablets, they'd been sent through anyway, just not given to me. Maybe because I'd actually ran out of the thyroid meds and asked for them to be fast tracked.

My Blip shot was taken this morning when I went out for a walk to clear my head. Google Lens ID'ed them as Dalmatian Bellflowers