Irritated

While in France I got a call from Mum’s care home asking if I could go in for a 6 monthly review. It was arranged for today,so we had jiggled our diaries and drove up direct from Airedale hospital so Mr H didn’t miss his physio appointment. I had it in my diary as 13:30 but dad had written 3:30 in his so yesterday I rang to check. Five phone calls , one cut off, two left answerphone messages asking them to confirm the time, three not answered.

So having not had a reply we went down for 1330 , only to discover the lady we were meant to be seeing was off sick. I made it quite clear I had lost a days pay, driven a 200 mile round trip and surely someone could have notified me. The lady was very understanding and apologised but I am still quite irritated.

We are staying overnight, mr H has spent a lot of the time with his mum and dad , I’ve done some gardening for my dad, got my list of financial things I need to sort for him and generally had a nice chat. Angus enjoyed his long walk while Mr H was at physio this morning and has enjoyed sitting in dad’s knee this evening

I realised I was photoless and took one of the completed jigsaw I got done for mum a few Christmas’s ago. She loved jigsaws but was unable to do complex ones as her dementia took hold so I did three of photographs of the family with a few pieces. She didn’t manage to do them and when we did she wanted them up on the wall. I offered to get the original photos printed but no - she wanted the completed jigsaw! This is her and her siblings- I’m guessing around 1952

I am really tired but can’t switch my brain off because I am still too irritated, but thankyou for letting me rant.