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I was up late checking with Freda and then, morning, I took her to see mum and dad and found them in a bit of an awkward state. Later, Mum cuddled Dad and said sorry for nagging and worrying so much. After catching up with some work this morning, I returned to collect dad brought him home to us for the afternoon where we enjoyed looking at my fish and spending time with Della before having tea in the lounge with us before I took him back. I heard from John Porter, who is visiting Horning concerned about Heronshaw arrangements. The news today is of a sharp decline in both the value of sterling and the level of the stock exchange as in-experienced Chancellor John Major deems inflation as his main priority. The IRA have admit responsibility as a British soldier and his baby girl a mild weather of today, tomorrow is forecast to have storm-force winds and rain.
I slept well after a slightly late night again and only woke up when Di called me with my morning tea. Freda had kept chatting to me right up to bedtime and this did not give me a chance to write my diary until late. I had breakfast with Diana, Della and Freda as Debbie had been taking early to her horse riding. The day was brighter than recently, and the rain stopped. I took Freda to see Mum and Dad this morning and found them in a bit of an awkward state. Later, Mum cuddled Dad and said sorry for nagging and worrying so much.
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After taking the Range Rover to Stanton and collecting Mum and Dad’s things from the bungalow, we delivered them to Weald House and had just set up the room when mum arrived in a wheelchair push by two ambulanceman. Mum started off in good form today, but dad seemed a little worse and soon, however, the over-expectation was dispelled, and I left them (sadly) quarrelling over something insignificant.
Home with Freda for some well-earned relaxation for us but to hear of shock, disbelief and a crisis prevailing amongst Tory’s stature loses Chancellor Lawson and Prof Alan Waters, triggering a reshuffle with her lapdog John Major becoming Chancellor and Douglas Hurd moving from Home to Foreign Affairs. London shares were heavily sold, and the Pound Sterling plunged against the Deutschmark and the Dollar.
I was awake early this morning after a reasonable night. I made a few preparations and then I took the Range Rover to go to Stanton to collect Mum and Dad’s things from the bungalow. We also chatted to the neighbours before coming back, stopped at the Little Chef for lunch and had a long chat with Freda and we called Weald House to arrange to drop in. Mr Mrs Issett helped us in with the things. There was Mum’s new electronic wheelchair, clothes galore and many photos and personal possessions to make their nursing home room more homely. We had just about set things up, and Di had arrived with Dad’s clothes and name tags, when Mum arrived in a wheelchair push by two ambulanceman. She looked in good form and her back was forgotten for a while as they made their reconciliation.
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Di and I consoled each other after we tended my Dad yesterday and we did our chores and dropped the children off so that we could visit Dad at Addenbrookes again. Despite his first response of wanting to go home to Stanton, he was now set on Weald House as he ‘did not want to leave her or let her down’. We left him for a couple of hours for lunch as we got some flowers and things and then collected him and took him there, where Mr and Mrs Issett made Dad as welcome as they could. After I collected Debbie from Offord and Di got Della, she took the two swimming as I spent a restful evening, after feeding the fish, recovering from the trauma.
The government is freezing child benefit for the third year running at £7.25 but other benefits rise with inflation. There will, however, be increased help for the terminally ill and their carers, but payments for patients in nursing homes will not be increased in line with inflation. Plans for a nuclear processing plant at Dounreay in Caithness have been approved.
I slept reasonably and then cuddled with Diana early this morning so that we could reassure one another. Once Debbie had been taken to horse riding and I had finished the dove and pond chores, I got the car out and we loaded Daniel (for dropping off to his friend Gary’s house at Coton) and Della (for dropping off at Di’s parents place in Bar Hill) and then set off for Cambridge. We got to the hospital to see Dad in late morning and, despite us trying to find out what he really wanted, he was determined to go to Weald House with Mum as he did not want to leave her or let her down.
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I was still really not very keen on Weald House and so went to see the British Nursing Association in Cambridge and was very impressed with their home nursing services and then Dad was keen but sadly mother was not when Di and I rushed over to Bury St Edmunds to discuss it with her. After dropping off Freda at Stanton, I drove Di and I back to Paxton too weary to think any more about it. London’s ambulance service still ‘in a shambles’ but least there is the prospect is of talks tomorrow.
Another long and stressful day. I had a conversation with Freda this morning to compare notes and then I started looking through the Yellow Pages for other nursing home adverts as I was really not very keen on Weald House. I chanced upon adverts for nursing services under the banner ‘As you need never leave your own home’ and so I called the British Nursing Association and arranged to see the Superintendent in Hills Rd, Cambridge on my way to see Dad at Addenbrookes this afternoon.
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