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2008 - July 8th - Tuesday

JH ordered a jumbo outer London A-Z street map, and a street map of Essex – both for Ralph, and a new pocket London A-Z for herself, as hers was published in 2004.


 

2008 - July 9th - Wednesday

JH received a phone call from Kathy – with lots of up-dates: Kathy told JH that the article Distant Cousins very special bond . . .’ had been published in yesterday's Echo - 8th July 2008.  Kathy rang JH as soon as she returned from the RLH (which appointment she had obtained following Dr Tutty’s advice to see her own Clinicians on returning home): things had not gone as planned because the Transplant Ward was so busy - there having been a transplant performed the previous day; Kathy and Ralph had set out at 7.00am, having got up at 6.00am, and – at some point – Kathy had starved herself (JH is not sure whether she was able to eat any breakfast before she left home); Kathy’s trip to Theatre – with a view to possibly draining one of the fluid collections by her kidney - was cancelled, and she was asked to come back the following day.  This is, of course, not how things should have ‘panned out’; JH thinks that Kathy was just managing to keep going in view of the super article, written up by Sarah Calkin, being printed that morning in the Echo.  JH explained to Kathy that JH had sent a suggestion that K could look up the account of Steve and Cathy’s School Reunion, but Kathy was unable to recollect receiving this email, and beginning to fade in her concentration; however, the two of us continued to talk together, and JH gave Kathy the Herald’s website address, and JH asked Kathy for the Echo’s website address, but – as Kathy pointed out – there are rather a lot of newspapers called the Echo, and Kathy had done most of her communicating with the paper via Sarah C: JH undertook to look herself on the internet.  JH omitted to check with Kathy as to whether the latter actually had cytomegalovirus infection, but Kathy was still just about ‘up and running’ in any case.  JH expressed her admiration for Kathy’s and Ralph’s resilience in coping with this – so exhausting – situation. 

Kathy said that she had at least 7 phone-call messages awaiting her on her return home: two of them were from publishers, who had already picked up the story in the Echo: firstly, she had rung back a lady called Felicity Cross, who is on the Publishing ‘Board’ of Take a Break, a magazine published in association with the Echo; secondly, Kathy had rung Tracey Gatton back – this lady reports for several magazines.  Kathy had told both these ladies that she would have to ask JH if the latter was prepared to receive a phone call from them; JH was pleased that Kathy had not just given a phone number; however, JH would give some thought to communicating with these ladies – especially as Kathy had asked one of them if there was ‘money in it for us’ to which the answer was ‘yes, and you can spend it on what you like’!  Furthermore, Kathy remarked than one of them spoke ‘posh’ (query word used) – presumably without a East End accent, or a Home Counties accent!  [Subsequently, JH told Kathy that she would be quite prepared to talk to the two Magazine Reporters; however, several months afterwards, and after several more ‘episodes’ of this Saga(!), Kathy told JH that she had not received any further communications from these ladies, although they said they would be in touch again.]
 
JH did a Google Search ‘Echo and Essex’ and rapidly found the article in the Essex Echo – which she emailed off the website to Kathy.  JH rang Kathy to say that she had emailed the Echo’s article, and that JH was prepared to speak to the two publishing ladies – after ascertaining that the other 5 messages which Kathy had received were not from Publishers; Kathy assured JH that these messages were from friends and relatives; Kathy subsequently circulated all interested parties via an email with the two papers’ websites, so that folks could read ‘all about it’ for themselves.

JH noted, when looking for the article in the Essex Echo about a ‘Hipsey’ that the name, Terry Hipsey, a local Councillor in Thurrock, appeared under several news reports:  JH mentioned these entries to Kathy who told JH that she had been hoping, over the years, that he would finally turn up at a Reunion in East Anglia.

JH made whatever cancellations were necessary (ie, WRVS shift, and dental appointment) over a long weekend period 24th to 28th July, and phoned the Lawn GH to book four nights’ stay at Maidenhead – intending to go to the Greenwich picnic on Sunday 27th July.

 
 		Link to "Distant Cousins' Special Bond"
Essex Echo - 8th July 2008 


 
 
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