Oh No!

Mourning angel in the Cathedral but relevant to today.  Took my friend to have a big 8 hour orthopaedic op in Southmead today.  We arrived at 7.  Then I looked after her husband until later in the morning before settling him into a respite home for a few weeks.  Returning home at 12.30 I received a call from my friend that she had been sitting in her gown for 4 1/2 hours waiting outside the theatre and the op had been cancelled - this was her fourth 4th cancellation.  Returned to the hospital to collected friend and then to the respite home to collect husband after he had had his lunch.  Friend shattered but philosophical and calls the day a 'rehearsal'.  So now we await the real thing again.