The next decade....what's in store?

No Biggy

I come back to The Rock to find out that the helper has been off sick for a good while. Perhaps in some households this would have created chaos, but when you have my mother for a mother, this is no biggy.

She turned 67 today, and you wouldn't know it. Still motoring around like a 40 year old spring chicken....

At a little barbeque we had for her up at the brother's house at the top of Jack's Hills (even up there it was too hot today), the story turned to helpers and stories were related by others who were there. Mother said she came home to find one taking a bath in her bathroom, even though the helper had quarters of her own. She said she told her to dress and pack her things immediately and leave, then decided she didn't want any more around her, so for a good while, we didn't have one. Again, no biggy. This was when all three of us were under 10 and she was still playing netball for Jamaica.

Tomorrow, she is cooking stewed peas in other of a friend who is visiting. I asked her why she arranged it for Monday, knowing the helper is off. She said 'no biggy'. She has energy to kill.

As she was taking out the dishes and so on late tonight, I told her she was just like her mother, who used any excuse to entertain. And whenever she would come from foreign to visit us and we were entertaining, she was in the thick of things even when she was well in her 80's. I guess we will expect the same of mummy!