The day started well...

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At 4.30am with a cheery wave to D from under the duvet as he headed of to Portuagal for 4 days golf with the lads.

Day continued well with Marion arriving around 11am to spend the day with Alan but went downhill fast when, just after lunch there's probably a connection given the amount he ate) the clip on the lap strap of Alan's wheelchair snapped off!

OH F*CK! Not good! Not good at all!

The lap strap is the thing that secures him in his chair and without it the wheelchair is useless. He can't actually sit in the wheelchair without it! And I currently don't have any other proper chair for him. And it's Saturday. And D is in effing Portugal! Arrrggghhhhh!!!

Ele arrived in the middle of the drama. (Her hubby is one of the Portugal gang so she's moving in with me for the weekend.) We got Alan onto his bed and scratched our heads. What the hell were we going to do?!!

Aha! No not the 80s pop group! Lightbulb moment. He has a rackety old shower chair. Hoping to get a new one soon! It has a rackety old lap belt. Could that work? Short answer yes! Not great but better than nothing. Phew!

Crisis averted I somehow managed to take a photo but didnt manage to blip!

Ele and I made dinner and had a very stiff gin! or two!

I fear today's drama has added another wrinkle to the old fizzog!!