It’s all a blur
Dominic Cummings, eat your heart out
It is. A blur. I drove home from QEH Birmingham (leaving Jen with C) to put Doris in for an MoT on Monday. I’d prepared her, fixed her horn – which always suffers with damp – and a front driving light. And she was ready. I got to the council MoT depot in Yate at 7.30, half an hour early … and it was the wrong day. My fault. It was booked in for the Tuesday. I was a day early. That was annoying.
In the end some good may have come from it. Doris is now booked in for her test at a new HGV centre, which has excellent reviews, in Avonmouth – which is both an easier place to get to and, unlike the council depot where one of the mechanics is, frankly, a pain, the guy I spoke to sounded lovely. On the bus, off the bus. Etc.
So I went for a run (still 20.10 – can’t yet find those extra ten seconds; you’ll be the first to know) and then drove back up to Birmingham.
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Jen is making progress. The pain is under control and the numbers all look good. They were hoping to take the pancreatic drain out this afternoon and she may be released tomorrow. That presents a bit of a logistical nightmare as I’m down this neck of the woods (work with the MoD tomorrow), but we’ll sort it. The next question is how long and how frequently does C spend time as nurse maid? We won’t know for a while, but at least Gloucester is considerably closer than Birmingham.
Whilst I’ve been twiddling my thumbs I’ve started editing Book 6, which was and is a real worry. Why? Well, because it’s different again and I don’t want it to be rubbish. So far (Chapter 2) I like what I’ve written and it’s all plausible, etc. But we’ll see. I know I like the ending, but it’s the bit in the middle which I’ve sort of forgotten about that is causing concern. Wish me luck.
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mmm, I hope it’s good
In the meantime the audio recording gear has arrived with Sorrel, so she’s going to have a practice. And I had a comment on Twitter from someone I don’t know asking when the
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all the gear, some idea
books will be out on Audible. The answer is, Unsuspecting Hero hopefully by the end of March. We’ll see.
That’s it from me. QEH continues to be a brilliant hospital … if you’re going to be ill, ask the ambulance driver to make a detour. Hopefully by Sunday Jen will be home and we’ll be in some sort of routine. Fingers crossed.
