Covid and all that

 

As you all know now Nicholas is home safe and sound, but he has contracted the dreaded covid together with his mum. Both of them have been very poorly, which seems unfair under the circumstances. Nicholas has various medical issues which have to be attended to before he can return to the Ukraine. His own cats were sulking for a while, but have now more or less got back to normal. He is still worried about his companions over there not forgetting the 13 cats (especially one wee one who adopted him). Two of which are shown here. 

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We are still making very slow progress with our decluttering basically due to my brothers extended stay in hospital and he still cannot walk any long distance. It is a great worry to myself and Daniel. 

At least our own medical needs are getting sorted out bit by bit. 

We still have our hearts set on a sanctuary plus that is to say a place which is not only a learning and healing establishment, but a place with a small cheap cafe for the lonely or isolated to come to make friends or at least have some social contact.It needs to be able to welcome people from all faiths. There has to be a place for animal  healing, a playground for the young ones plus classes and workshops for therapies, spiritual awareness plus crafts. A wee shop for sales plus a bookshop. We have lots of new workshops planned. We are continuing are peace campaign as you know by sending out worry worms, hearts etc as random acts of kindness and it’s quits rewarding when we get an email or comment saying someone found this at the right time.

Home we come

Nicholas is now back from the Ukraine and it sounds as if he had quite a gruelling  journey back. A long bus ride from Kviv to  the Polish border. The first part of the journey was where he was based near the front lines back to Kviv where he spent two nights ans one day before venturing on the  arduous path to eventually arriving Rzeszow which is a popular tourist place for English and American whose manners weren’t‘t exactly polite when he started speaking to them in Ukrainian they started shouting him loudly in English.

I will be interested to hear about the cats reaction will they be all over him or sulking?

We have actually made a wee bit of headway with our decluttering (not huge strides but in the right direction).

We are continuing with our peace campaign and a lovely lady who lives in Wales is now also offered to help and a large number of worry worms and hearts will be speeding there way tomorrow.  I have been working it out and I must have knitted around 800 to 1,000 hearts and worry worms. 

Please join our peace group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/

News but no nothing consequential

Here is the latest news on Nicholas who is now in Kyiv before he departs for Poland a long bus ride plus two flights etc . He enjoyed a nice shower etc after being with 13 people all of whom smoked, 13 cats (including the one who sleep with he named Gabrielle) plus two dogs. He should all being well be back in Gerrards Cross by 14th and hopefully enjoy a good long rest.  We will be posting picture of all the cats hopefully in a future post as he was not allowed to send photographs from there. We really admire his determination to return to help and hope he sorts out his own medical needs quickly without any problems.  

We are continuing with our Whats App Group which has now been running over two years started during the pandemic and now still going strong with members from Buckinghamshire, Kent, Somerset, Essex and London. 

We need to think about looking for a place to have a retreat which is inexpensive and within peoples financial constraints. So little money about now and everything seems to have risen in price. 

We have been continuing to campaigning for peace. The worry worms and hearts etc., have certainly helped to cheer a few people up. We have now got a lovely lady in Wales helping with our campaign. One day maybe people will realise “peace”  is worth more than “money” 

Decluttering is a slow process and my brother being in hospital has held us up even more as i seems to have spent so much time on the telephone with that and my own plus Daniel’s medical needs. The poor nurses are rushed off their feet and very short staffed. My glasses snapped in the middle and that has caused even more mayhem. 

I will be happier once we can sort out some new support stockings so my legs aren’t so swollen, but at least my feet are in better shape since seeing a lovely podiatrist called Jolene at the Downham Leisure Centre. We also got news of Petros too via her and he has established his own practice. Getting old has its disadvantages, but as I have said there are some who don’t have this privilege or they don’t want trouble makers like me on the other side. 

I am starting to feel that the days of spiritual churches is over and we need more spiritual communities with the same ethos as people like Les and Jacky Fuller, Alan Albiston, Diana Samuels, Michael Redwin, Alfred Hunt, Paul Bathgate  and Bruce Bayley. Being spiritual in my opinion is not just attending the church, but it’s a way of life and there is need for more empathy and compassion needed. I would be interested in hearing others views. On that note I will terminate this post and will update you on Nicholas’s return plus the cats reaction to him. 

Latest on Nicholas and more

Whatever you are celebrating or just resting we hope you have a peaceful constructive time. 

Nicholas is now in the war zone so his mum will receive little news until he returns to a safer place. He had joined another aide organisation as 

https://www.msf.org/

has as I previously said been declared a terrorist group. The last news she received was that the group of people he is with had adopted a cat which has given birth to 12 kittens. Luckily Nicholas would have difficulty in bringing them back as the three he has at home are none too pleased by his absence.

We are still decluttering but it is slow, slow,  slower and I am finding it slightly depressing. These crazy energies are not helping. 

We are continuing sending peace tokens out and sometime it’s quite rewarding when you get a message saying it’s made a difference in someone’s life (especially in these trying chaotic times). Several boxes have gone out and I am hoping to get another out soon. Hopefully these too will cheer at least one or two people. Please join our group on Facebook “Rainbow Healing Sanctuary Hearts for the Love of Peace RAK”. Let’s send out peace worldwide and be more understanding of our fellow human beings.

On a personal note  I am adding another thing to my bucket list and that is we go to Cyprus to surprise someone. So that is number seven 

More News of Nicholas

Nicholas has now been in the Ukraine over a week and has been sorting out peoples medication amongst other things as most of the medical records have been lost. The medical charity he works for MSF have now been declared a terrorist organisation with shoot on sight for any of their workers. Chemical weapons are being used  aimed a civilians. So it’s all pretty grim and we applaud Nicholas for his courage and determination. He also travelled into territory where he couldn’t communicate with Diana (not easy for her I hasten to add). She was without communication for three days. They have set up clinics where they needed to do but have had to withdraw because of being declared a terrorist organisation as have the other charities and aid organisations. He is now back in Aviv near the Polish border and will returning to the Uk on 14th April. More on that in my next post.

My brother is still in hospital recovering from Sepsis and a UTI. At the moment there is no indication of when he will return  as he is having a kidney scan on Monday. Lots  of healing needed. We are shattered and sleeping chaotically. Awake in the early hours a present from Covid.  

We are still on our peace campaign and worry worms in the Ukrainian colours are etc are being taken to the Ukrainian Church in London by a friend who had being going there since the war started. We are also hoping to get some to more countries to send the peace signal worldwide. 

Are decluttering is making slower progress than we would like but it’s continuing.j