Accompanying Diana for her varicose vein operation at The Cromwell Clinic in Huntingdon and trying to progress a rental interest in No 2 West Street
This was the day booked a long way in advance for the operation for varicose veins on the back of Diana's lower right leg.
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I had said I would be with her and I kept this promise and really wanted to be there.
First this morning to try telephoning to contact the owners of 2 West Street without much success. The wife was very unhelpful on what time we could view it and so this seemed to rule it out for the day with my other commitments.
To Paxton well before the 10.30am scheduled leaving time and to water the plants, feed the birds etc. I also set up the river pump to try watering the games lawn which had become quite white and bleached with the sun and lack of rain.
The girls were all right and so we left Della to go to school and Debbie to her own devices; promising them both a McDonalds meal with Daniel when he got home later.
The drive to The Cromwell Clinic in Huntingdon where we could park in the grounds and I went in with Di and helped her settle into her room and get registered for the day.
We wrote out the £1,000 cheque, answered all manner of questions as she was interviewed by the nursing and theatre sisters, the manager and, later on by surgeon and anaesthetist as well! I stayed with her during all of this, just going out for an hour to get some lunch as she was not allowed any food.
It was funny as I met Tony Gee and Ewan Rainer of HDC walking down Huntingdon High Street and me with my mobile telephone pressed against my ear!
A call to Wiggly who tried the house owners with no more success than me and so we had to agree to view the property at 6.15pm, convenient or not.
Back to Diana and a few more hours with her until she had to get ready for the operating theatre and then I left at her request.
The viewing of 2 West Street went well with us impressed with the four reception rooms and the private walled garden. It would need the acquisition of parking facilities next door to make a success of it and this would have to be negotiated.
Wiggly had to rush off to her theatrical meeting and me to my wife who had come round from the general anaesthetic and was dozing in bed.
The operation had seemed to go well, though delayed from the planned time, and Di was suffering from no side effects from being made unconscious from it.
I sat with her and we took our time to see how she was going to be, with nurses and the operating staff popping in to see how she was. Eventually, we reckoned that she was well enough and ready to go home and so we packed her things and got to the car.
The journey back when I settled her into bed with water and things at her side; only then realising that I had left my portable computer and her suitcase outside the hospital!
The hire of a taxi to bring them solved that problem and then I agreed with Di that it was late and I would stay the night with her. The girls were still up and I left a short message for Wiggly saying I was not going to be home and would take the repercussions of that in the morning.