Shadows

A long hot day. I've been trying to figure out what happened at the elections.

Then in evening got a distress call saying that my Mum had more or less been dumped back at her house after being discharged. It's a long story but there was no warning, no assessment of the house, it was an option we had expressly ruled out with the nursing staff on her ward.

A flurry of telephone. My brother R jumped in the car to drive up and assist and was ambushed by a deer at high speed on the M40. Thankfully he is OK but the car ended up in the central reservation and has been written off.

Sometimes it feels like the stars are aligned against us or a malign and evil presence is at hand.