Where’s the bucket?

We’re all a bit sickly. Jen was back in A&E Gloucester on Monday. She was sore and her drain bag was delivering puss-like liquid – not much of it, but it was stinky. Anyhow a trip

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another trip to A&E. Smiling though.

to a packed A&E (multiple beds in the corridor), a CT scan later, advice from Birmingham and it seems that she has a fistula, which I think means the pancreas isn’t healing (which is not unusual) – or she has an infection. The advice is a trip to Birmingham on Thursday.

C woke with a rubbish stomach today, has been sick and has failed to make it out of the bedroom, save to throw up. Jen phoned me this morning to say she was feeling pukey and what were we to do? As if I would know? Anyhow, the long and the short of it, Jen’s steadied and we will take her to Birmingham tomorrow and see what they say. C’s still not up, but looked better about an hour ago. I have cancelled my day with the MoD tomorrow, but will go back in again next week. I’m still only feeling 85%, like I have since Christmas, although I am still running. Could just be getting old, although my sinuses are still a pain. What we need is an elongated period of dry, sunny weather. Not much hope of that here.

Annie and Al were coming down for lunch today – but we cancelled that. He’s walking miles now, after his new hip; which is great. And fabulously, if you’ve picked up on the news that the first woman has passed P-Company, the Army’s toughest entrance test to the Parachute Regiment, that’s their youngest daughter, Rosie. Anyone who knows Rosie won’t be surprised. She is a fitness monster, an Army triathlete and as tough as they come. Well done her; really proud as a sort of ‘uncle’.

I’ve been working on Doris. Still fixing the leaks in the garage doors. I seemed to have stopped the flow of water with various sealing techniques. Next will be to cut out and replace all of the rotten wood. The good thing about Hymers is the main body and roof are all a composite sheet which can’t rot. So it’s only the garage floor which is an issue. I am looking forward to having a go. First, though, we need a break in the weather. In the meantime using Sikaflex I have resealed all of the external opening: windows, lockers etc. I did the same to the roof lights last year. Hopefully I am keeping the water out. We’ll see.

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Sikaflex … what would motorhomers do without it?

And, I’ve finished the major edit of book six. Phew. It is as good as anything I have written. I’m certain of that. The ending is … well, I think it’s as good as it gets. A double twist and very emotional. Fab. Next stage is a read aloud to C. I can’t wait for someone to listen to it and see if they get as excited as I have been about it.

Mary is down for the weekend. I then have two days work – one with the MoD and the second at the school in Farnham. Hopefully as time goes on Jen will start to pick up. We need her to be fit so we can sail off to Spain for a break!