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2008 - July 3rd - Thursday

JH did not see the Skinners till the following morning and, as ever, both of them busied themselves - in their usual organised fashion - with loading their car prior to their journey back home.  As had been previously arranged, Diana Prince, the Herald’s Reporter phoned JH at 10.00am and interviewed JH about JH’s Donation of a kidney to Kathy: the conversation continued for some three quarters of an hour during which – of course – JH chatted on, digressed, but endeavoured to put into words her emotional Armageddon, and privately hoped that Diana could extract the salient information she required to put in her article to ‘encourage the others’ in National Transplant Week.  Kathy had a briefer, and weepier, conversation with Diana {not that JH could not have wept herself}.  Lucy, the Herald’s Photographer, arrived on the dot at 12.30pm – being met at the door by Ralph as he continued to load the car: the photo shoot took place with JH and K seated on JH’s sofa; some shots were also taken outside in the garden.


 
 
Within minutes afterwards, K and JH were walking into Quality Snacks in St Budeaux Square whilst Ralph parked the car.  {Even though it was packed with their luggage, Ralph had no apprehensions of anything being stolen: there are always risks to be taken in life – JH observes.}  The long-time Café Proprietor was, of course, told about K and JH ‘making the news’, and so, as ever, he was most friendly and welcoming {he of course had no recollection of refusing to serve JH with a glass of tap water many years previously}.  JH reprimanded Kathy for having a large bake spud and heaps of protein filling, and an omelette with bread and butter but, as she said, in her own defence, if she stoked up for the journey there would be less necessity for refreshment stops (but only comfort stops presumably). 

At 2.00pm the Skinners drove away from the Café to start their long journey home.  JH had germinated a packet of pumpkin seeds in her propagator; Kathy took three seedlings - to go in Lorraine’s garden; after Kathy and Ralph’s departure, JH nipped down to the Woodside Shop at Ford to give them some seedlings (subsequently the three specimens JH planted in her own garden where rapidly eaten by the slugs: did Lorraine’s do better?).  Whilst in Ford, JH called into St Neot’s Surgery and asked the Staff to extend thanks to Dr Tutty for seeing Kathy; JH hoped that Kathy would remember to let the Surgery know her National Insurance Number (which she determined she would write in her diary so that she had it for reference at all times).  Furthermore, JH did just mention that she still could not see the pictures of Lopwell, which JH had donated some months ago, gracing the walls of the Surgery.  Kathy phoned JH shortly after 9.00pm: she and Ralph had just arrived home after an ‘awful’ journey along the M25 – but had got there at last.



 
 
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