Cobham Park

Thank you for all your well wishes for Adam. We fetched him from hospital this morning and he is fine. The worst part of the whole episode was that he grabbed a bacon roll at 8.30 am yesterday morning as he was rushing out the house to the NHS walk in centre with Gavin, and was expecting to have surgery after lunch so was told not to eat or drink anything. He eventually was operated on at 11pm last night and by then was quite faint with thirst and hunger (as he usually consumes about 3000 calories per day!). As his case was necessary but low priority, he kept falling down the theatre list as emergency cases came in throughout the day, which is understandable. His friends have been texting him in jest...'you had general anaesthetic for an ingrown hair, what a wimp!' and the jokes have already started. It was a lot more than that, and the abscess was extremely painful by the time he went into theatre and he was on pain killers all day. Now he has to return to the ward to get the dressing changed every day for the next week but hopefully that will be the end of that.

This is Cobham Park, originally the home of the 1st Earl of Ligonier and the original house was built in the 12th century but this current version of the house was built in 1873 to a design by Edward Middleton Barry, third son of Sir Charles Barry the architect of the Palace of Westminster. It was sold to the Combe family in 1806 and in recent years while the estate was retained by the Combe family, the house was sold to a property developer and today it is made up of luxury apartments.