Thursday morning started well, it was to be Isobel's first Thursday session at the hospice. Isobel usually has breakfast and a cup of tea in bed before taking her tablets and bathing. However today there was a mini disaster as the bowl of cereal was spilt into the bed, soaking the sheets and mattress protector in milk. I think we will need a second mattress protector as we have only one and it is a thick and very comfortable item that takes absolutely ages to dry after washing. Despite this we arrived at the hospice by 10am, finding that Valerie, the grandmother of one of Euan's school friends was also at this session. On the way home I delivered a third skip of books to Erith Hospital, then got the washing started before going to Iona's house. I weeded the front 'garden'; cleared a lot of rubbish from the back garden; cut up most of the old shed and removed the old washing line. This was very dirty and dusty work on a hot day, the car was crammed with rubbish that was dropped off at the dump on the way to pick up Isobel from the hospice. Isobel had enjoyed the session, I gather they played bingo but this time she did not win as she did a couple of weeks ago. At about 4pm, while I was taking some more bags of books to the Ellenor trust shop, Isobel had a slight fall up the couple of stairs from the first landing to the main landing. Euan was with her at the time and no harm was done.
At 5pm Terri and Toni from work dropped in for tea/coffee biscuits and a chat; Iona also came over. They stayed for an hour or so. Then Isobel had fish and chips for tea and ginger pudding afterwards. The tedious chore of finishing drying the mattress protector delayed bedtime.