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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Looks like quite a nice day out there

[WTFH]

Morning all
So, BA say my flight is going to take off on time, but already know it will be delayed 31 minutes on landing. I wonder are we going over the pole today.

[mudskipper]

Sub 30 parkrun - my first in 2 years! Go me!

[SueEllen]

Sub 30 parkrun - my first in 2 years! Go me!

Congrats

[SueEllen]

Morning denizens

Looks like quite a nice day out there

No it's not it's grey and surprisingly warm for an autumn morning.

Anyway exercise done. I wouldn't be able to walk tomorrow....

[WTFH]

T5, in the lounge.

Bored.

Chairman of the bored.

[NickFitz]

Sub 30 parkrun - my first in 2 years! Go me!

Go, as you quite justifiably assert, you!

[NickFitz]

So, when I went down to breakfast in the hotel this morning at 8am - apparently the first to do so as the dining room was empty - I was informed by the hotel chap that "the old lady", by which he meant my mother, had been taken away in an ambulance during the night

Apparently she was very unwell and my father called an ambulance for her which arrived about 4:30. They ended up taking her to hospital at around 5:45, as she had a temperature, her blood pressure was through the roof, her heart rate ditto, her blood sugar levels were screwed (she's diabetic), and they weren't happy with the readings on the cardiogram.

My sister and her husband had been up with them (their room was a couple of doors down, whereas I was in what amounted to a different wing reached by a maze of twisty little passages) so I didn't want to go hammering on their door right then in case they were making up for lost sleep. So I had my breakfast. After a while I was joined by my cousin and her husband who were also staying there.

Around 8:30 I got a text from my sister asking to borrow an iPhone charger, and then she phoned me. Word had come back from the hospital that our mum has a UTI, so they're giving her intravenous antibiotics and keeping her in until at least tomorrow, and probably Monday. Every hotel in the area is fully booked over the weekend, so my sister and her husband are staying on my brother's bed settee until she's able to be taken home. As there was nothing I could do and visiting times didn't start until mid-afternoon, and I'm also the only one who still has to go to work for a living on Monday, it was decided that I should come home; I can always head back up if need be, as it's only about an hour to the hospital from here.

So now I'm awaiting further bulletins

On the bright side, I stopped at Chatsworth Farm Shop on the way back and bought excessive quantities of very fine meat; it's what my mother would have wanted and, in fact, what she was planning to do today herself

[WTFH]

Nick, I want to hit "like", but what I mean is "man hug".