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2007 - May 12th - Saturday

Ann rang to say that the very morning she went out - to take a grandchild back to mum – she found a note, on her return, to say that the Post Lady had tried to deliver her Airsure package!  Enquiries were made at the local shop - cum post office - where she and Walter were told that the package was locked away somewhere else; plan B is to call in just before going to Nuremberg Airport on Monday morning; JH reassured big sister that NOT ALL her tickets were therein, and that – in any case – we could sue Airsure for not delivering the package in 3 working days, if the package was not received before she left!  Ann thought she would arrive at the pub earlier than JH had suggested, but JH had allowed for the eventuality of delay in Customs at the Airport.



2007 - May 13th - Sunday

Kathy rang JH from Northampton: JH explained that she was just throwing things in a bag, washing up, etc, etc, all at the same time; JH also mentioned again that Ann would be meeting us for a drink (on the Skinners!) at about 2.30pm tomorrow.  JH just caught the 14.49 train to Paddington: the journey was relaxed, and uneventful; JH arrived just before 7.00pm outside RLH – where she sat on her wheelie – on the pavement {where it had been vacated, on a Sunday, by the Whitechapel Market} to listen to the Archers on her radio – with earphones – which activity did elicit a few stares from posh persons passing in cars.  The keys for JHH were retrieved from the Security Office without a problem. 

JH occupied the room next door to her previous accommodation; she had not been provided with blankets instead of a duvet, so she turned off the heating, and then went down to the sitting room to relax and watch Naturewatch and Kingdom on TV in the sitting room.  Whilst there, Tina (JH is not sure that she has remembered the correct name) – who had answered the phone when Ann had rung JHH – came into the sitting room to say ‘hello’ as she recognised JH.  Tina told JH that she had been at JHH for several weeks to be with her daughter, aged 37, who had been knocked down by a van in Regent’s Street – right outside the police station: her daughter had multiple injuries which included several fractures of an arm, leg, and the pelvis, but her most serious trauma was to her face - one side of which had been ‘torn’ off {JH}; she had required extensive plastic surgery, and reconstruction of her eye socket.   The daughter had a high-powered job of some sort, and mum was a floor manager in a superstore; mum said that her employers had been most understanding and were holding her job open for her; neither mum nor daughter had partners, but, of course, the daughter realised that the cosmetic result of her injuries would disadvantage her in being attractive to a new boyfriend.  Tina also told me that the family who had had a bereavement (when JH was last in JHH) had only stayed briefly in the Home because they had been told that their relative, a gentleman with head injuries sustained when he fell down some stairs at a railway station, had no chance of recovery – which proved to be the case.




 
 
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