Goodnight Mister Tom

I saw the NHS physio this morning. Instead of walking to the community hospital as I usually would, I had to take the car as my knee was too sore. She thought I’d need to
use ice 3 times a day for the inflammation, do gentle exercises for it and start by walking 10 minutes on the flat twice a day. She’d see me in 2 weeks and if it was no better she’d put me forward for a cortisone injection. The wait for it would be a further 3-4 weeks. I explained that for my mental health I needed to exercise and walking was the only exercise available now our pool was closed so could she please refer me now for the injection and if I’d recovered before it I could cancel. She agreed.

Then I drove up to Blue mill to deliver sponsor money to Karen for her son who is running Hadrian’s Wall for Medical Aid for Palestine.

I thought as it was such a lovely day I’d walk down to Suzie’s for the veggie food group lunch. Of course this was not a good idea as going steeply downhill exacerbated the knee issue. One of the group kindly gave me a lift back. The lunch was really relaxing as the moaner didn’t come. The theme was foolproof menus. I took cucumber and avocado soup which was good as it was a warm day. We also had a veggie jambalaya, Greek potatoes and nut patties. The pudding was a blackcurrant cobbler.

When I got home I found the conservatory man had been to finish off. He had the missing bit but the factory had sent a bolt which wasn’t big enough to fit it on. Now we have to wait till they manufacture the correct size. Grr.

Chris didn’t get much done in the bathroom as he had to go to a play afternoon at his little boy’s school. He put on the battens to start tiling and fitted the underfloor heating control panel. Tomorrow is his turn to look after the baby but he’ll come on Saturday to make up for it.

We picked up Ailie and then Chris and got to People’s theatre in good time to find a parking place. #3 daughter and Ella arrived while Luke took Nathaniel to the Green Room. #2 daughter arrived just in time, with the boys. James had his foot in a boot. He’d had to be picked up from school and taken for an XRay as he’d fallen down stairs at school and they (school not parents) thought he might have broken something. They don’t know yet till a senior person looks at the X-ray. He said he was rushing to get out for break. I suspect larking around would be more likely. If the consequence is he can’t play football he’ll have learned something.

Goodnight Mister Tom was wonderful. The director had done a great job with the set and staging. It turned out the boy who played Zak played rugby with Thomas and used to go to his school but is now at Dame Allen’s private school. He was excellent. As was Nathaniel. I was so impressed as the character he played was so different from his cheery happy self. And he was right, some of us did shed a tear. It was so well done we really were caught in the emotion of it.