Skeleton Crew

Another glorious start to the day. There was no particular hurry to get going as long as I was in time to escort Ellie to school.

Once home I had a couple of items on my "must do" list. Firstly, a glass of coke had been knocked over, yesterday. The table needed to be opened up and the hidden leaf cleaned. Then the floor needed another attack from the steam cleaner. The other "must do" was to tighten the base of the kitchen table. Whilst not noticeable when it is closed, it wobbles when extended. The table is immensely heavy so it took a bit of effort to flip it so that I could gain access to the fixings for the legs. The fixings are just simple nuts and bolts and it was just a matter of tightening the nuts. It was soon done and the table flipped upright.

Zoe was back at the hospital this morning. They were busy, so she was there for several hours. After the various checks on her toe, she was discharged into the care of our GP - on the proviso of weekly checks until all is better. It looks as if it will be a fairly long road to full recovery - but it shouldn't stop her from working.

We had invited the Sonning Crew for afternoon tea. Chris and Maureen couldn't make it but Trudy and Ian came round. I had conducted a raid on the Runcton Farm Shop to get some of their huge fruit scones and some cake. We had a lovely few hours, sitting in the garden, sipping tea, and eating scones with clotted cream and jam.

It was while we were chatting that the subject of Di's medication came up. Her new tablets had not been delivered. The pharmacy is closed on Saturday and Sunday, so it was clearly going to be Monday unless we intervened. A phone call was made to check the tablets were ready and then I whizzed around to West Meads to collect them. The pharmacy's excuse was that they were only delivering emergency prescriptions today. Well, with the greatest of respect, who are they to determine what is an emergency prescription. We were not impressed.