There's the sadness for what we have lost. [My husband] doesn't feel that sadness. I do, you see. He's aware that there's very much missing. If he could drive now that's all he's thinking of [laughs]. That is. That's, to him, that is the only thing he's lost, his ability to drive. But he thinks, you know, that he'll be going off and doing things that he did before but we…
How about for you?
You mean…
Things that you feel you've lost, time together that?
Yes, yes, we have lost the sort of times, that I need to, I have to explain an awful lot of things. You can't just make a statement. Now like the other day we were looking around. I was just buying some milk actually and I went and said something about organic milk. Well I mean I don't know how you feel about organic goods but I don't buy organic [laughs]. And you know and I said, “Oh that's organic. I don't want that. I don't want to pay extra for that”. Anyhow “Well now,” he said, “Organic”, he said, “They've just added something to it”. And I was trying to explain to him what this… “Everything is organic”, he said. “After all if it grows, it's got to be organic”. And I was trying to explain to him that to use the term organic it's got to comply with quite strict regulations. You know I said it's got to be no artificial, no pesticides, nothing like that. And he just, his idea of it, well organic he just said they add something. Actually you know, they don't and I was explaining to him whereas before he would have known exactly what it all. He said everything is organic these days and they go on and on about organic things. But he didn't really realise what organic is and why it really is more expensive because obviously you don't produce as much [laughs]. If you're not getting rid of the weeds and that and the pests it does cost more to produce. And you know, just little things like that and you'd have to sit and explain so much. |
