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2008 - September 16th - Tuesday

JH had had a conversation with Kathy on her mobile phone in the evening, even though she did not really want to ‘interrupt’ her and Ralph’s Wedding Anniversary. Kathy sounded very exhausted still but had, apparently, got over her gut upsets; JH explained that she wished to confirm that she would be coming by train the following day, but had not looked up timetables yet – but would anticipate arriving between 2.00 and 3.00pm.  Kathy said that she and Ralph planned to have home made lamb casserole for lunch which would be ‘really nice’, but JH was most insistent that she would NOT be arriving in time for lunch, and that they should on no account delay eating themselves, and that JH would be eating some lunch on the way.  JH also spoke to Hazel on the phone again to say that Kathy was feeling much better (JH said 100% better, which was perhaps an overstatement, but which was made in comparison with JH’s and K’s previous conversation during which K had been so ‘switched off’): during this conversation JH and H continued their general discussion about the legacy of getting older, the  individual ‘psychological’ coping mechanisms that each one of us use to cope with ill-health, family relationships, and ‘significant life events’ as the pundits put it. 


 

JH also had a discussion about loaning Hazel The God delusion and Lost Icons, (we had had a conversation previously about ‘things spiritual’ just after H had returned from Church on Sunday).  Hopefully, when Hazel has finished her stint at relieving her incapacitated colleague, JH and H will be able to meet – perhaps when JH comes to North Devon for NDRUG’s AGM in October – by which time Hazel will have found Karen’s diary of her gap-year work in India, which JH would like to read.  Hazel again explained that her schedule for the following day absolutely precluded her from meeting with JH and the Skinners: JH had already had the thought that it would be unwise for a young grandchild to be ‘in the proximity’ of someone receiving treatment for a Clostridium Difficile infection.



 
 
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