While we were at Tea Gardens we enjoyed meeting with the people at TGBC (Tea Gardens Baptist Church) for the Sunday Service, Bible Study and meals (lunches & dinners). On Thursday 10 April we headed back to Granville.
While here we had pet sitting duties at Silverdale for the school holidays, morning and night. There was also shopping to do in preparation for Easter, some sewing to do and other smaller jobs for me and Nyssa. We love spending time with our families.
It is always nice to catch up with the everyone at GCBC (Granville Community Baptist Church) of a Sunday.
We continue to enjoy catching up with our friends R&H each Friday for dinner and chatting. After we got home on Friday 25 April, at 2130 hrs I received a phone call from Liz (brother Brett’s wife) letting us know that Brett was unwell and in hospital in Maitland and that his scan has showed that it was cancer and that it looks quite bad. This meant that I had to work out when to visit him and after talking with my sister and brothers we agreed we would all visit on Saturday 10 May, all praying that Brett lasts until then. There were lots of phone calls across us all as we monitored Brett’s progress.
We attended the Camping & Caravan Show at Rosehill where we purchased a composting toilet for the 5R. It was delivered on Monday 5 May and Dean installed it. We will hold our thoughts on this for future comment. He also got busy and washed the roof, the front and back of the 5R; the before and after photos show how good a job he did.
I visited Westmead Hospital on Tuesday 6 for a scan and then a follow-up appointment on Tuesday 20. The scan came back showing improvement; the doctor was happy and I am allowed to drive again.
After some discussion we decided that for our visit with Brett & Liz we would stay at Tea Gardens and travel to Singleton each day. We left Granville on Thursday 8 May at 1035 hrs and arrived at Tea Gardens at 1230 hrs. See While we were camped in Tea Gardens we travelled to Singleton on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to spend time with Brett & Liz. It was great to spend time with my sister/sister-in-law and brothers on the Saturday, we took lots of photos and remembered lots of history. As we all left that day we felt that he wouldn’t be with us much longer. We didn’t his passing to be as quick as it was. On the Tuesday 13 May as we were packing up to head back to Granville, the phone rang and Liz rang and simply said, “He’s gone”. We left Tea Gardens at 1230 hrs and headed back to Granville and arrived at 1430 hrs after a good trip. It had been a long, rainy, anxious day and both of us were very exhausted at night. It is hard to believe that my baby brother is gone and we are thankful he wasn’t in pain for too long.
The next couple of weeks there have been lots of phone calls between my sisters and brothers trying to prepare a eulogy for Brett’s service (planned for 13 June). Dean busied himself with helping Nyssa by driving kids to different activities and odd jobs (gutter, dryer and wardrobe door repairs).