Hello everyone,
I caught up with pop again the other day ,

Because I’m doing up my party and bbq area ,
I was just scrolling through marketplace and I spotted a big old 14O cm plasma  tv for sale at Coonwarra which is about half an hour down  the road from me .

So I organised to pick it up that day and  I thought that id go visit Dad first and then take the drive to get it afterwards.

So at 

 Rose Lodge when I went to dad’s room ,
I just knocked and entered his room to find him sitting on the throne in all his glory ,
I caught him
Sitting up on the dunny  doing his business.

We then just sat down and we went through all of the normal questions,
Are you ok dad

I think so ?

How are you

Ive  been better

He asked me what I was doing with my  time ,
I told him of my plans for a party with all the crew soon and that i had just brought myself a sh Pioneer plasma tv to replace the old broken one thats now unfortunately just going to the tip.

He asked me if I could help him escape from jail for a while ,
and could he come with me for a drive?

Sure no problem dad ,
ill go tee it up with the nurses  first ,
and you wait here and I’ll be straight back.

Dad is so stubborn with using the walker even though he has had a fair few falls now ,
as I feel it makes him admit defeat,
which is something he can’t ever personally do he just can’t  also possibly do.

So for the first time in so long ,
since i was a boy when I got back to him that I told him a white lie ,
I told him that the nurses said that if he doesn’t take his walker ,
he cant go .
He quickly agreed to take the contraption straight away ,
and he said to me get me out of here.

Just watching him struggle to walk to me is absolutely heartbreaking ,
He has become so frail and old now and he hates his life and what it had become.
Very slowly he is accepting that this is his end fate .
But it’s slowly.

It was such a beautiful day outside,
Warm sunny and a nice with a slight summers breeze as we exited the building foyer.
I made dad stay put at the door  and I went and got the car,
I put the walker in the canopy and dad and I got in the car and we are off to Coinwarra ,
On another adventure to get the tv.

I thought Id give dad a first for his life and take him to the Wonthaggi Maccas drive through for a coffee ,
This sounds crazy but
As far as I know ,
old Curls has never ever been to or eaten MacDonald’s food in his entire life .

He says its just rubbish and we never went there as children even for just a burger.
So I laughed as I pulled into in the driveway and I asked him if it’s his first ever time?

He said no that your mother had brought me here twice now for an ice cream.

Ahh  lol 

we grabbed our coffee after a massive long wait in the cue ,
We were off.

This trip I noticed was so different than usual right from the start ,
than ever before,
As I tried like usual to have a conversation with him on the way,
But he was just so disinterested and he seemed to even just totally ignore me.

Ok
He just wants to change the colour of his day and get out for a  planned escape,
and I certainly don’t actually blame him .

So its now another first for us ,
Usually we travel together with the radio on quietly in the background,
This is unusual i guess because dad is fairly deaf , but he hears some things at low pitch .
As then we usually discuss most of the problems of the world .

This time and for the first time ever ,
Because he wouldn’t talk to me.
I thought for  the first time that  I would just crank up the volume right up loud for once ,
and I did ,
Nice and loud ,
Dad didn’t even flinch .

I instantly had a giggle as now dad was for the first time in his life he was listening by default to my favourite
Pink Floyd

Playing
Another brick in the wall .

We don’t need no education ,
We don’t need no thought control.
Is that us?

The playlist that Spotify put on for us for the trip was so grouse,
the songs that came on seemed to be just for him and him and me .

So I just sung my head off as we drove together down the winding road of life ,
We are
Still together ,
and we just were hanging out together ,
on a mission.

My trusty Google maps gps was up to the usual and it was definitely still stuck hard in hide and seek mode ,
once again ,
it was a challenge that i didn’t really even need especially with dad in the car .

Now ,
Phew
i finally got us to the destination ,
and I asked dad to just stay put as I wont be very long for me to load the tv and he may as well just wait there in the car .

Pst
That way he is not in the way helping me 

The lady led me into the shed and the Tv was on a vertical stand all  covered with soft blankets tied on the frame with ropes .

I unpacked it for a look and it all looked really good 

 so I asked the lady if it ab
actually worked properly as lately nothing electronic seems to work for me .
She assured me me that its a perfect runner ,
So i paid the lady and I brought it .

Plasma TV’s are known to be extremely heavy ,
and I had already opened up the backdoor of the ute when I arrived to load it into.
The lady asked me how I planned on loading it .
I looked at her ,
smiled and bent down and picked up the tv ,
Tucked it under my arm and walked out of the shed and put it in the back  seat of the ute .
The lady followed me in disbelief and handed me the remote and the books for it ,

We were now back on the road and in full concert mode ,
It is so weird cranking music 

 up with dad ,
But it was cool as .
And in my books it certainly beats the Hell out of the ABC .

So we then drove back to Wonthaggi and to his place ,
As luck had it ,
He was back right on time for tea when i dropped him back to the lodge .

Well what a productive day ,
I got myself a new plasma and I went cruising around with pop.
And he listened to me sing for the first time in so many years .

Its all good 

Things are now constantly changing with dad especially with his mind and his sharpness has now faded as the twilight zone now slowly closes in around him and his human light force is fading fast .

I sometimes think that I’m just too an emotional person because ,
It seems to really rattle me and upset me now ,
after I visit .
Im sort of already morning the loss of my teacher .

Life is a tough learning road ,
and my dad ,
will certainly go straight to heaven,
He is a good person
And apparently thats all you need to be to qualify.

Lots of people on Earth don’t qualify ,
They don’t get to go to heaven and apparently they all pay for their sins committed against others on earth for an eternity in the afterlife.
With Lucifer.

Thats what is written in the good book,
There are Just ten rules to follow ,
one would think that would be easy,

To me it is .

What path do you follow?

Cheers xxx
Curlyg