Problems checking in to the Norbreck Castle Hotel today
Problems checking in to the Norbreck Castle Hotel today

It was a very poor day for me, feeling tired and achy and unwell with possible food poisoning which made our change from the Pembroke to the Norbreck Castle hotel the more challenging, particularly as they kept us waiting for hours for our room, the porter, and our interconnecting door. No sympathy from Diana who was angry, annoyed, and determined to keep away from me instead of consoling me.

Awake this morning feeling very tired, achy and in many ways unwell. I could only stay in bed and then, very reluctantly, take a bath. I honestly had a temperature and it may be that there was some aspect of my food yesterday that cause the problem. As it was our day to leave the Pembroke Hotel, we hung around in a hotel getting our bags packed and then we loaded up the car and checked out. I took little part in this process as I was quite grogged. We then drove to the town centre and had a morning drink before I left the family and came back to check in to the Norbreck Castle Hotel whilst they went to a few more amusements and activities. I had a poor time at The Castle. They took two hours to prepare my rooms (though they had estimated half an hour), the porter took half hour to find time to bring up our luggage and then I had to wait a further 45 minutes for the hotel to open the interconnecting door between our two rooms.

The hotel is a very modest one, with poor standards of decoration and just a few horrible sticks of furniture. I joined the family for the evening meal, being a little better, and it was a bit of an overcrowded scrum in a very hot dining room. Di and I slept in single beds tonight. She has greeted my illness with a combination of emotions; anger that I am ill, annoyance with me eating seafood and a shrinking horror that she might be getting it, leading her to keep well away. I would rather have had some small measure of sympathy and affection which might have made me feel better!