Hi again, well last night was different, when DD came to collect DGS she invited me upstairs for dinner, cooked by SIL, also a trained former chef like me.Delicious dinner with some very nice wine, he still seemed a bit uncomfortable but really tried hard.
We have know from the start he was jealous of DD and I but just ignored it, perhaps we should have tackled the matter when they first met.
They are both involved in Historical societies here which makes for busy times at certain times of the year, this weekend was a really busy one, the next full weeknd is not until May when hopfully the weather will be good enough to let DGS play in the garden, and me!!
The elderly care is quite good here, but i am not old enough for that yet, nor disabled enough for a specialist home which double as convalescent homes, I stayed in one for 7 weeks after my knee replacement, it was lovely, but nearly 1and 1/2 hours drive from here. Returning to the UK is out, neither I nor DD would want that. The thing is DD and SIL are very happy together, except for the hoarding of his mothers possessions he is an extremely generous man to her and DD, and as i said to me too, he told me last night that he was having a new heating boiler installed here in the summer. The old one is a bit temperamental.
Hopefully the row on Thursday will have made him realise he is acting irrationally and learning that I qualify for Sheltered housing and knowing me leaving would be devastating for DD and DGS has made him open his eyes a bit.
The Church here is also very different from a local parish Church in the UK, the parish is the whole of Belguim, and we have more than 60 nationalities registered as members. I am one of only 5 people in the congregation living within a mile of the Church itself. The rest are all friends but in full time employment some with young families too.
Most people come to Brussels to work and we have a very young congregation, full house most Sundays.
I am one of the coordinators of Christian Aid here and we have our 2 main fundraising events next month, both of which i will do the cooking etc for.
This has really helped a lot, I told DD I had posted and she says thanks to you all too, the sun is finally shining here so its a shower and a few hours in the garden for me.