Live From The Echo Outback

Just got back from picking my old mum up from the "Royal Hallamshire Hospital" in the UK's 5th biggest city of Sheffield, she has been having some tests and among many other complicatedly named medical terms she has "Pulmonary Hypertension".
I felt hypertension after looking after my dad for the last couple of days, he now can only barely walk after entering the later stages of Parkinsons Disease, still we have took him everywhere with us have me and Luke including shopping yesterday at ASDA.
I think he has risen in spirits a bit, this morning before dinner we were at Well holme park near Brighouse with my dad in his faithful wheelchair, Luke and his cousin Mr Popple and our two dogs Miss Boley and Mr Bodie.
But tonight getting back from Sheffield after only going through one red light, getting lost again and forgetting where I had parked my car on my maiden visit there finally my mums visit to the hospital was over and I am back at home after a crazy Easter week so far.
On Monday as the picture above maybe gives away we woke up in the Echo Outback a piece of woodland maybe 2 miles from where I live and spent the day there, it was lovely weather and I was joined with my good friends Uncle Buck and Dwain Dibbly to celebrate my 40th Birthday.
Dwain Dibbly is now renamed as Party Man and is the last of us three winos still actively drinking but he has to be careful being a chronic pancreatitis sufferer.
Joining us camping in Echo Outback was the following Characters...
Mr Popple, Lukes cousin and the son of Domonating Donna and Partyman, he is a good friend of Luke too, sometimes I think Luke is a bit mean to him
Lord Farquaad, Lukes younger brother always loves a good adventure and was most pleased when his mum the legendary Ice Queen said he could come.
Of course my son Luke, whe seems to be getting lots of wise words now he is growing up, at 14 he is already taller than Partyman!
We were joined too by my dogs Miss Boley who you can see below
I Havent thought too much about work or even attended my AA meeting, I really wanted to just let live from day to day not been too sure where life was gonna take me this holiday.
So anyway I am now 40, though if I had lived on a planet further out in the solar system I would be younger and if I had lived on Mercury I would be much older but I live on earth so I am 40 earth-years and well its just a number, I aint vastly older than when I was 39 so I am not bothered anymore.
My mum said tonight when she was in hospital for these "tests" she had dreamt that her mum and dad had come to see her, she seemed in good spirits since she had made many friends in her hospital ward on the 16th floor overlooking the city of Sheffield.
I was rather selfishly glad she was back so I didnt have to feel the full weight of responsibility for looking after my dad, it really feels like total role reversal, me changing his nappies etc, but in a strange way it feels like something that nature plays out again and again.
Anyway its just after 11 on Thursday night and I got 3 more days of adventure before I return to the monastery my "Easter-Dreamtime" in Aboriganal terms complete and I feel vastly recharged from lifes experiences.
I wasnt gonna blog again, I have even cancelled my site at http://www.madmickstories.com/ but then I changed my mind and thought why not just "blog" like everyone else, just type on to the page without thinking about what it sounds like and re-reading it etc which has been getting to be the norm with the "Trucker Charts / Newsletter - esque" entries for the last few months.
I cancelled my sister site because with a company called "Home-stead" it was costing too much and everyone can get a free facebook site now if the want to which is I guess what I was trying to do before there were tools to do it.
Now there are tools for free, everyones at it, so I dont want to, but Im sticking with my old blogger site because well its free and gives me a chance to get stuff out of my head, and if someone reads it then its a problem halved.