Before you Make a Decision Like that...

Tooli is traumatised.

Last night her mum and dad got drunk, which meant she had to drag herself out of her pit this morning and pull together all her training stuff, and breakfast and lunch to get round to her mate's house for 7.30 for a lift 50 miles up the road.

Si staggered out of bed when the alarm went, stuck his head in her door and said "You are up yeah", and came back to bed.

I listened to her wombling round, and decided to be maternal, and make her a cup of tea. I stirred her scrambled eggs for her (she's not as incapable as I make her out to be), made her a cuppa, took a couple of headache pills, and jokingly drew a map for her and her pal. This was the first time they were undertaking the drive themselves.

I staggered back up to bed, and passed out. I awoke later, with the answer phone kicking in downstairs, and lay waiting for the message.

Nothing came, and I picked up my phone to check the time, saw two missed calls from Tooli, and called her back. She picked up straight away, and all I could hear was "which way, which way?" in the back ground.

"You lost?" I said, imagining them around the corner from the Sports Centre where they train - i had often taken a wrong turn there and mentally placed myself in Wishaw and said "where abouts are you".

"We're on the motorway, but we are going the wrong way".

I thought perhaps then, that they had completely missed the turn for Wishaw, and were heading for Edinburgh, but no, it was better than that.

"Oh I know where we are, we're nearly at Silverburn". Silverburn, is a shopping centre, about 25 minutes up the road. Even better.... it was two hours after they had set off.

Fortunately, another mother was on route - all it took for me was to direct them to a car park, so they could wait for help.

So after a day's training, and over two hours up, and just over an hour down, she is faced with packing for her return to Uni tomorrow, meeting up with her pals before she disappears again, and contemplating whether or not she can physically make another training session tomorrow; given that L will have to have a day off from the driving :-)

Too much to do, too little time to do it.

Oh Life is such an adventure.