Saturday, 27 January 2007

Fun day

Today was a busy family day. We gave Rhiannon a lift to work and then babysat our granddaughter Bethany for the day.

We had a wonderful time driving Bethany to Ampthill to see my sister Caroline at her soon-to-be-redeveloped Cheshire Home. Caroline and I talked about Dad's funeral: the Cheshire home are arranging transport for her down the crematorium.

The home was having one of its regular fetes and Bethany charmed the socks off everyone, and had a fantastic time with Caroline riding around on her wheelchair. On the return journey, we sang and shouted all the way back. Great fun, very cathartic adn very exhausting.

At tea-time, we had to return Bethany to her parents and I had to collect son Bobby from St Albans station where he had arrived from Brighton. It’s the first time we’d seen each other since his granddad died and it was a bit emotional, but no more than is proper.