Home help?...I think not!

Today we had a visit from Bluecare.

 It is a home help service for the elderly here in Australia

Will’s mum’s Bluecare worker is called Julie. She comes every fortnight and does some cleaning jobs and hoovering for Will’s mum. Will’s mum warned her not to go into our room as we had lots of stuff out...(Remember those 6 cases we lugged through Edinburgh?)...I did say that if she looked in, my side of the room was the tidiest. She went in the bathroom and cried out;

 “Oh No! Boy’s things! There are boy’s things in the bathroom!”

She mopped some floors and hovered around a bit and then sat down for a chat. She had to stay for an hour. Will and I both thought she was on a cushy number with the amount of actual cleaning she did while she was there but for Will’s mum the company was just as important. Julie said we would not believe the state of some of the houses she visits.

She was interested in us two and asked lots of questions. It turned out she and her husband, a truckie, had 125 acres further south. They had some cattle but they were more like pets. She said she could never send them away to the abbatoir.

She then started to tell us of the trouble she was having with snakes at the moment. My ears pricked up! She said there was a ‘King Brown’ around her property that was really aggressive and she had not been able to get rid of it and as such was having to keep her dogs inside. She said when she had let them out to pee the other night she shone the torch on the step and there was another brown snake on the step! The dogs had run over it. She said she spent ages after that checking them over for bites. She got her mobile phone out and showed us a picture of 2 pythons that she found in a mating knot on the beam over her car in the garage! She was very amused by my reaction to all this.

Will’s mum helpfully told her I was more worried by spiders! Thanks Dulcie!

Julie was not a spider fan either. She said she turned over her chopping board once and there was a big bird eating spider as big as her hand on the back! Will was rolling his eyes and said ‘You are not helping Julie!’

At last she had to leave. She said she could not wait to come back and find out how we get on up at Frogknot!

“Yes,” I said, “Hopefully I will still be alive!”