Saturday 6th of June …. I woke up hearing my husband Gary calling our son saying “Scott when you get this call can you ring me as soon as possible, I am worried about you!” As it was only 7.30 a.m. quite naturally I was also concerned and rapidly coming round from a deep sleep I asked Gary “What on earth has happened?” “Have you not seen Scott’s post on Facebook from one o’clock this morning?” was Gary’s answer. Me – “Well obviously not! As I normally sleep through anything most nights.” (I certainly don’t sleep with my phone by my bed otherwise my Mum would plague me 24/7) I rushed to look at my phone in the kitchen, to find a horrendous post from our son, calling himself all the names under the sun which somebody else had obviously said. Strange how when you want to look at a Facebook post again you can never find it, but this one came up at the top of my Facebook no matter how many times I closed it and tried to frantically also ring our son.
After also trying to contact our eldest son Gavin, while seeing more posts and messages from friends, we quickly got dressed and decided to go over to see Scott in person, not knowing what we would find. Of course this was not before I received a call from my Mum “When are you bringing those Lillie’s round that you mentioned?” Me – “Not at the moment Mum, I need to do something else this morning but hopefully I will be round this afternoon.” Mum – “Well what time?” Me – “I honestly don’t know, it’s not as though you will be out is it?!!” growing increasingly exasperated as I felt we need to go over to Preston to see our son, only a short drive away but still felt the need to hurry. Having dashed over to see our son, we pulled up outside his house, only to receive a text saying “Don’t worry Mum, I am okay, I don’t want to talk on the phone. It’s complicated and to do with Jen (one of his ex-girlfriends). Talk later” Me texting back – “Son we are outside your house now, why don’t you come out and talk to us?” Scott text back – “No! Talk later!” As you can imagine we were not in the best of moods on our way home but thankful that he was okay.
I know that may seem a strange statement but our son who decided to cancel his wedding six weeks before the date he was due to marry, is now is living with that same ex-girlfriend Ruth! Apparently she stayed the night the Lockdown happened and hasn’t left since – wasn’t that convenient?! Hmm you have probably realised I do not approve and you would be right as said ex-girlfriend that Scott is living with, actually rammed her car into the back of Jen’s car (who was just a friend at the time) approximately eighteen months ago! So to say I do not trust the current ex is an understatement!! I hope you have managed to follow all that - as if we haven’t got enough going on! Life is never anything but complicated when it comes to our son Scott.
Hmm as for Mum, no sooner have we walked back through our door, the phone rings and the answer phone cuts in. Mum – “you did say you were coming round this afternoon didn’t you?” I do not ring back as my energy seems to be draining away like the acid out of an alkaline battery! I ask Scott to remove his Facebook post, I post another telling everyone he is okay and let all his friends know too. I decide to ring my sister to assure her everyone is okay, she appears quite cool but I try to ignore that until she points out the reason for her curt attitude. “I wasn’t impressed by the response to your Facebook post yesterday of Daily Trials with Mother” says my sister. Me – “Really I saw that my niece and our sons had exchanged comments but took it as nothing more than banter!” – Wrong thing to say!! Michelle – “Banter? Banter? Well I am not impressed and I think you should stop writing about Mum on Facebook, as you are putting too much information out there! And if I could have spoken to your sons last night I would have ripped their heads off!!” Me - "Be my guest, but personally I don't think they said anything out of turn." And so that put paid to my daily messages about my Mum, as they were told tongue in cheek and not meant to upset anyone but definitely maintained my personal wellbeing through the lovely comments I received back and have since.
As for Mums Lillie’s, yes I went and dug them up out of my friends garden and took them round that afternoon. Mum took one look and said “Hmm Thank your friend for the Death Lillies! I am not sure about putting them in the garden now.” Me – “They are not Death Lillies Mum, they are Arum Lillies and yes I know they use them at funerals. ( My Grandma actually suggested I have them for my wedding day, no I didn't!) If you don’t want them, I will take them back!” Humph goes Mum, “Well I suppose they will look okay.” Then we get on to the topic of Fish and Chips, as we were ordering some to collect from a local Chippy the previous night, I rang Mum asking if she would like some too. Only to be followed by today's comments "Thank you for the Fish supper last night, the fish was lovely but the chips, dearie me I don't think they were cooked properly and they were nearly cold! What were your's like?" Me - "Well seeing as you kept me talking on the doorstep about one thing or another including the post you gave me to post, its hardly surprizing! As ours were luke warm I reheated our chips in the microwave!" With that I left the Lillies and said I would plant them the next day if she wanted to keep them.
Talk about 'God give me strength!! Large G&T on ice when we got home, for both me and Gary! And in case you are wondering no, my sister never did ring our sons!!
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