Saturday Soiree -- 18th October 2025

Hello @roses , @M17 , @Breakfast68 , @DownMoreThanUp @Kashmina , @FearofUnknown , @Fullofhope79

How are you going today my friends

Hello beautiful @Shaz51, hope you're having a good day ❤️

Hello @Shaz51 just been back from a walk and am about to wind down and meditate

Hello @MissGremlin. OK here and a bit hot here

Hello @SmilingGecko , hope you had a nice walk , see anything interesting

@Spirit_Healer , @Former-Member , @Eve7

@Shaz51 Oh just a wild kids birthday party with a blow up jumping castle and half a dozen kids on a trampoline with water being sprayed everywhere in a quiet street lol!!!

Thanks for the tag, @Shaz51 ! I appreciate it! Hello everyone! ☺️

My day has been good so far. I volunteered at Vinnies this morning, had a cup of tea with a friend and had someone wash my car for me. Now I need someone to tackle the inside of the car. 🫤 I don't have the motivation or any inclination to wash my car. It's been over two years. I thought the dirt would protect it! 😂 Anyway, it needs to be washed regularly because of the salt in the air and the Ibis (flying cane toad) poop. 😉

@Shaz51 Good seeing you around. i think i'm doing bettr than yesterday. Not feeling near as anxious as i have lately, though it is not over yet, i dare hope this mood is cycling past. i hope so!

My wife and me have ben discussing issue we are having with our daughter moving into her own home. Our girl is severely mentally handicapped and at 37 we bought her a house and got 24/5.5 per week funding. She has been doing exceptionally well the last 2 months moving in, but we noticed last week already that she needed much more down time, for she had not been processing her week away well. This weekend it has come to a blow with a worker, who got her basically at the end of her mental endurance. And hadher behaving in ways she did not know how to deal with. And we were called for.

We got her home today and know perfectly well what has gone wrong. Her workers have been too focussed on her achieving her goals, and she has not been given enough time to process her emotions and feelings.

Our girl finds it hard to express her feelings. We know this and give her down time after exciting events, so she can process all the evens, and talk them through in her head. Which she ONLY does on her own, when she feels unpressured and safe. When we hear her talking to herself, in animated ways, we know things are going well.

So we trying to work out how to best inform the workers about how to tackle this from now on. For we do not like seeing our girl like this. She is completely out of it. Having read her weekly activity book, we can easily see how come we have our girl like this. Somehow we have to get the workers alert enough to understand when she needs down time, and how to know when she does not, or has enough. We know, but such are difficult things to explain. For our daughter will not speak about her emotions easily, and if she does often confusingly unless people really know her well.

Anyhow this is how my Saturday has been so far.😄

Birthday party 🎈 @SmilingGecko how exciting, hope it finishes early 😊

@heartathome , sounds like a good morning

I would help you with your car if I was closer my sister

Had my step son and his wife visiting from Sydney, aww felt so touched that he calls me mum and gives me hugs

@MissGremlin , @SmilingGecko , @Jynx , @tyme , @Eve7

Hi everyone!! Happy Satdy!

@Shaz51 @DownMoreThanUp @heartathome @SmilingGecko @MissGremlin 😍

Haha @heartathome same, my car is so grubby. I know that bird poop is bad for the paint but I still haven't shimmied my rump off to the car wash in far too long!

@DownMoreThanUp That's rough, must be such a difficult adjustment. I wonder, maybe 'down time/alone time for processing' should be included as one of the goals for the SWs to start building into the routine?

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@Shaz51 wrote:

Had my step son and his wife visiting from Sydney, aww felt so touched that he calls me mum and gives me hugs

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@Shaz51 CUUUUTE!! 😍