Isobel had a fairly disturbed night. She was constantly restless although apparently asleep. Every half hour or so she did wake up and wanted the toilet, needing to be lifted back into bed afterwards. At about 6am she went soundly to sleep and slept until almost 10am when the bed was soaked. Isobel sat up and breakfasted while the cleaning up was going on and felt tired afterwards.

After lunch Iona came over. Following a phone call a representative of the nursing home called to do a "pre-assessment" on Isobel before admission. She seemed to want to spend most of the time talking to me and her talk with Isobel was rather cursory, however she seemed satisfied when she left although she said she needed to talk to her boss before confirming the admission arrangements. Iona and Euan sat with Isobel while I collected her prescription. A phone call from Tracey Cook was taken by Iona, some problem had arisen with the nursing home. Subsequently Tracey Cook's boss phoned and confirmed the nursing home arrangements had fallen through and the "absolute guarantee" of respite care this week would not be fulfilled. We had foreseen this coming and Iona gave our agreed response - that we could just about get through the weekend but must have respite early next week. Afterwards Euan and Iona did the shopping and Iona went home for a couple of hours before returning with Jon.

The children gave me the evening off and I went to the London Borough of Bexley town twinning quiz with Donna and Denis. The original plan about five weeks ago was to try and take Isobel to this, but it is completely impossible now to do anything like this. While I was away the children fed Isobel on pizza. Iona stayed with Isobel, who slept much of the evening, while Euan and Jon played computer games downstairs. I got back earlier than expected, about 10pm, having won the quiz and the raffle, so not a bad evening. We won by a large margin and have won this quiz every year but one, however this is the first time Isobel has not been on the team. Isobel was awake at 10pm but went back to sleep by 11pm.