Baby is born beautiful girl

I don't know her name yet. I've made her another little cardigan so I will post that my friend has flown over. I bought her a hoodie and some baby thongs she is 1/2 Aussie. Been gardening today I really want to get the garden more organized haha, it's spring so get its much nicer to garden but we are coming out of a wet period into the dry one.

Sometimes

Faced with this blank page cant think what to write. Bad things happening, friends husband has a melanoma, bad skin cancer being removed and my golf partners grandchild very ill. Does there seem more bad things now or just it affects me more. I worked in a children's intensive care unit once, actually the one the grandchild is in and a ward which looked after melanomas so I am imagining the worst about these two. I hope the cancer is early and the child recovers, it was a long time since I worked in those wards and I know treatment has improved.
The medical battle with illness has become very prolonged, one father called it torture of the dying, we hope for longer and we grieve longer and there are the consequences of life saving treatment that is very hard on the body. At work we are seeing survivors of childhood cancers having children and health issues they have, but then would anyone choose death instead, I've known a few mainly older people end treatment when the treatment was getting worse than the disease and it obviously wasn't helping. It's a rare doctor that advises stopping treatment even in very old age and particularly in crisis medical events. A lot of my generation having seentheir parents suffering and poor quality of life
Perhaps will make different choices through I doubt it.

Baby knits

My best friends daughter is having her first baby. I rang her this afternoon to say she must be ready to go, her daughter lives overseas then she was panicky. I want her to pick up the baby blanket and cardigan I've knitted for the baby. I'm going to try to make another little cardigan too. This a picture of the the knits. The buttons are old from my mothers button basket.

We planted a hedge

At my daughters place, a cypress hedge. I read about them they can grow to the height of a ten story building in 200 years so they have to be trimmed. Tomorrow we will plant a hibiscus hedge it has white single flowers it won't get so big. I was reading about hedge wars in England people get angry over untrimmed hedges. My daughter and her partner aren't much into gardening but their yard is really open to the street so they needed a barrier of some kind. It looks really cute I hope no one pulls them up.