Ice lollies

Normally I visit Mummy hazelh on Thursdays. However, this week we had expected to be occupied all day Thursday at Fringe shows with visitors due to arrive on Wednesday evening, so I booked my train tickets for today. We only learnt recently that the visitors are not arriving until late Thursday afternoon, so I could have travelled to Newcastle as usual that day after all. I'm just relieved that I hadn't spent £200 on Fringe tickets for that day!

Mummy hazelh was her (new) usual self today, confused as to her location and exhibiting some of the strange behaviours that we have witnessed since March. She screamed a little when in her bedroom. She threw food, made animal noises, and aped the accents of others in the dining room. She also complained about her hair, which was cut to shoulder length last week - without our permission, and much to the distress of we three sisters, now awaiting the outcomes of an investigation as to how this could have happened. 

Mummy hazelh and I had a lovely surprise mid-afternoon when my not-so-little sister turned up, having forgotten that I was visiting today. It really was great to see her, and Mummy hazelh took great pleasure in having two of her girls with her until it was time for me to leave for my return journey to Edinburgh.

I had a very interesting encounter on the train home. I have agonised on how much to write about this here. In short, I ended up in conversation with the friendly man seated opposite me in carriage B. This started as we left Newcastle when he asked me how to spell the word 'woo' for the pantomime that he was writing. I joked that I could be his human spell checker, and then offered him my popular handout on its and it's, should that be of any interest to him. 

By Berwick my travelling companion had told me that he was performing stand-up at the Fringe, although he wasn't sure that I would like his jokes. Even so, I insisted on reading his entry in the Fringe programme. I had quite a shock when I saw the description of his show on my laptop and realised that I had failed to recognise the UK household name performer seated in front of me. He didn't seem to mind this at all and the conversation continued. Then he revealed that his main interest is not comedy, but astrophysics. 

When (undergraduate astrophysicist) Mr hazelh met me off the train, my new friend insisted on taking the two of us for a drink at the Doric. Here most of the conversation focused on neutrinos, black holes, gravity, atom particles etc. We parted company at about 21:30, our new friend to his accommodation and we back home again. I wouldn't be surprised if we see him again in the future.

I have blipped the ice lollies that the staff at Mummy hazelh's care home delivered to residents and guests to help them cool down in the afternoon heat.

Exercise today: walking (14,068 steps).