Thursday 25th Apr

Having fed and watered the family I’m off to the library, and it turns out to be a busy morning. I had hoped to get some things looked at but ‘the best laid plans’ went awry. I’m on an early dart as I need to take the eldest for a routine review at the hospital. Hospitals are getting to be quite a theme this week.

We get there 5 minutes early to be told they’re running on time, and then we get seen half an hour later! While we wait there’s a little lad running around who comes and talks to us, and he makes me remember wistfully when the teenagers used to be small and cute. We then take half an hour over our appointment as the nurse we’re seeing is pleasant and chatty. When we come out it is starting to rain and the first thing I think is that I have a washing line full of drying clothes out. How times change; but that is the mindset of a house husband I guess. I get the eldest back to school in time for afternoon classes, get home and put the washing in the dryer. It wasn’t as wet as it might have been and I’ve soon got it out ready for ironing.

This afternoon consists of dusting, vacuuming, a friend dropping in for a cup of tea then getting the youngest’s kit together for his Duke Of Edinburgh hike this weekend – we are praying for dry weather. I cook tea and feed the family, then I pick up my mum and it’s off to visit the ailing one who has now been moved to a specialist hospital half an hour away, and the bad news is he’s now facing a major operation, and could be in for three weeks. So it is bad news all round for patient and visitors, but we’re British so we’ll soldier on and get through it.

Yours spending more time in hospitals

Jay