Oh for goodness sake

 The problem relative has suddenly produced more problems - turns out he has an acute, potentially very serious and quite possibly hospitalisation required, physical health problem.  He's had it for around a week or possibly a while longer (difficult to get out of him exactly how long), but has more or less ignored it and certainly not said anything about it.  Until it's almost too late - he's just panicked now.  This is him all over - he doesn't look after himself and his ailments at all, and only tells someone when it's become critical....due to his mental health problems mainly, but also downright stubbornness and a big degree of sticking his head in the sand and pretending it's not happening.  And all this just days before the big family wedding.  This isn't the first time this kind of thing has occurred - he's done it loads of times before.  It's almost as if he's decided, consciously or not, to throw a spanner in the works and divert attention back to him.  The wedding will still go ahead - of course, we wouldn't have it any other way - I've told my sister to carry on as if nothing's happening and leave everything else up to us (my brother and myself).  If it means we can't attend some or all of the wedding celebrations, well so be it.  It is annoying though, as if we haven't all got other things to worry about (not least our own families), and it's something that would have been entirely avoidable.

The weather forecast for the next week shows yet more rain, at least some virtually every day.  For goodness sake, can't we have an end to it?  It's so blimmin annoying, we all want to start getting on with our gardens but the weather's not having it.  It's not particularly cold and we haven't got snow, so there's that I suppose.  But I'm definitely a fair weather gardener - well, so is husband nowadays.  We can't even take Betty out to the beach - it's too windy on the beach right now, and Betty doesn't like going for walks in the rain or strong winds.

Haha - guess what, the sun has just come out, albeit quite weak and there are black clouds appearing.  I think we'll quickly go outside and finish off filling the raised bed with compost, there's not much left to do.  Got my packing for the weekend to do this afternoon.