The best laid plans... Part 1!

A joint early celebration tea party in the garden this afternoon for my birthday, a friend’s birthday and my parents’ Diamond Wedding Anniversary. During the present opening, cake eating and fizz drinking, my dad was taken unwell. To cut a long story short, I got to have a ride in the back of the ambulance with him to A&E in Bath where they were able to swiftly knock sepsis on the head. At 11.30pm, he was finally given the diagnosis of “small” pneumonia, and was told he’d be moved to a ward when a bed became available. Knowing there would be a wait (1am), and that he was responding well to meds and was in very safe hands, I left and was home just before midnight, 5 mins before my birthday!

(A backblip, things have gone haywire the last few days... The story will continue later in Part 2!)