Happy Mothers Day!

[firko]

Thanks boys.

That's a nice shot Firko

Thanks Mick, it's just a quicky taken with the phone but it grabs the spirit of the old girl. She's still out in the kitchen pumping out machiato's on the new coffee machine....nobody's going to sleep tonight.

My mum is 74 this year. You and people like us are lucky that mums still around Firko

We nearly lost her about five years ago after he quack doctor overprescribed blood pressure medication which caused her to go into a catatonic  state for a number of weeks. We thought it was dementia but a young Indian rookie doctor at Mt Druitt hospital tried an experimental drug that was still under trial in the UK on her and within two days she was sitting up in bed reading a David Baldacci thriller as if nothing was wrong. She came out of hospital in better mental state than she'd been in years and she's still powering. She does Tai Chi and 'Pilates for Pensioners' every Monday, reads a book a week, does the Sydney Morning Herald cryptic crossword every day and although she now relies on her walker* gets around like a 70 year old.

* I fitted a set of classic Oury motocross grips to the walker before we went out today.