Fort Worth . . .

. . . Spanish style. Rather desperate blip but light was getting short. A day on a variety of projects including working on a technical production glitch with the book. Busy liaising with parties in UK, US and Australia to sort out some print issues. Also updating the guide to our barrio in Edinburgh after our recce last month, sorting out the arrival arrangements in Rio of a rather tight American who got our driver to go to the airport to pick her up last week on a date that she wasn't arriving on, and now that she is arriving refuses to pay him the compensation of 50% for the wasted trip (2 hours of his time) which we had proposed as very fair and amenable on his part. Too much, was the cry! All USD17 of it! We told her to arrange her own driver (she has a card of someone) and that we'd pay our driver the compensation ourselves as a gesture of goodwill to him for her mistake. Then coached into Berlin before doing my nurse duties with the syringe to help Dd on her road to recovery . . . oh, and there was a trip to the medical centre to collect her latest unfit for work certificate and register myself in the state health system for the first time after 24 years of residency. Dd was also in close contact with her brother's hospital, her niece, the police where his impounded car resides and LadyF's daughter to arrange a drink on our patio on Thursday evening. Now out for dinner at the local Frankurter that has just opened again after a week's holiday.

PS
There were some interesting developments after dinner . . . see below!