Monday 22nd October
A funny story re our increasingly bureaucratic state of affairs in Australia…
We have recently spent a very nice time with our old friends Liz and Robbie, who lived in Tasmania thirty years ago and are still sadly missed. All those dinners, parties, celebrations!
At dinner on Saturday Liz told us about her mother who, at age 90, still visits nursing homes to play the piano for “the old people.” New legislation in Victoria has made it mandatory for all regular visitors to nursing homes to have a police check, to make sure that they are not thieves, or sexual predators. So dear Mrs Flynn, aged 90, had to fill in a form and allow an investigation into her (unblemished, uncriminal…) past before she was allowed back in to play the piano for “the old people.”
Hahaha ... that reminds of my (great) uncle ... he died last year, but we used to receive these great letters at Christmas time, when he was in his late 80s, about his visits to the nursing home to cheer up the 'elderly' ... "I brought in a blue-tongued lizard I found in my garden to show them ... one lady screamed and ran away ... I don't know why ..."
ReplyDeleteYour great uncle sounds like a real asset to the community! I bet the oldchicks miss him and his lizards!
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