Well, I got the surprise of the year this morning. We had to be up at the crack to be at Shotley Bridge Hospital (Opthamology) for 9am. 9am is before God in our lives at the moment. ESPECIALLY for kp.

I had set alarms to raise the dead. I didn’t need them. I was awoken by a naked kp who had been up for 40 minutes SHOWERING HERSELF !! She had got as far as she could without my help, but she needed help dressing. I couldn’t get round my head round that kp was up first, and that she had showered as well. It threw me for the rest of the morning.

So……………..We were early at the hospital (8.55am). We thought we would be in and out, having the first appointment of the day

Wasn’t to be. There was a cockup with Karen’s notes not being there, so at 10.30am having seen EVERYONE arrive after us and be seen before us, a lady came over and asked us if we wouldn’t mind being seen 45 minutes later (11.15am) as someone else had another appointment to go to and was running out of time. Suffice to say, we made our excuses and rescheduled.

We were a bit deflated at that point, and had a nice fryup to cheer us up. kp was really cold when we got back and had the fire on the full blast, I was sweating cobs. We compromised and I stripped to a t-shirt and she wore a shoal Marie had bought her and we turned the fire off.

There were loads of jobs to do today (time sheets for home help, incapacity benefit, petcam for cleo etc etc…). I got stuck into these as Karen sorted the mess in the Kitchen out. It took the toll on her and she had to go to sleep. I was very grateful.

I joined kp later in the afternoon and we got up 30 minutes ago for the evening’s entertainment (Poirot).