On Saturday I had a meeting for Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) supporters in Rochdale. It was in my thoughts to travel alone with Pauline resting at home. However, as the meeting venue was just half a mile along the road from our son's family home I felt it would be wrong to come straight back to Anglesey at 4.00pm when the meeting ended. I said this to Pauline and she agreed. Well, the idea grew and grew until we had organised a lunch and tea with David and family for both of us. Our daughter, Sue visited too, so it become a family meeting.
Each week we assess what Pauline has done in terms of progress with her recovery and think about what the next step might be. (This is not a pun!) At this point she had not been on a long car journey and we thought it was worth trying it by now. As it happened we did a dry run by driving to Warrington and M & S to get some clothes for Pauline on Wednesday. We now knew she could do the journey as Rochdale is only 25-30 minutes beyond Warrington. Whilst at M & S we found a skirt we both liked but the store did not have Pauline's size in stock. We called in Mandy, the M & S Ipad user. She checked the stock on the website and as there was just one skirt in Pauline's size we ordered it. We requested that it was delivered to the M & S store in Bangor and this was arranged. Once home, I checked my emails and there was one from M & S confirming the skirt would be available at Bangor, Northern Ireland! It was not possible to reroute the package and so, this morning, an email arrived saying it was ready for collection in Northern Ireland. By this time we had located another skirt that arrived yesterday whilst we were in Rochdale so we now await a refund when the item is returned to the warehouse.
I can report that Pauline had a very painful leg by the time we arrived home at 9.45pm yesterday. Mind you, we had enjoyed our day. Half way to Rochdale I had met up with a woman who wished to let MAF have an album of First World War postcards to sell. Amazingly, although we had never knowingly met, we discovered that she had been present at my first solo presentation on behalf of MAF in Rhyl and that she had grown up in Sudden just half a mile from our MAF meeting yesterday.
This morning I am driving across the island to take the service at Holyhead Methodist Church. This is my first service in their new home at St Davids, Morawelon so I am looking forward to it. I have not taken a service in Holyhead for about 2 years but shall be doing two back-to-back this week and next. Just like buses when you wait a long time and they all come together!
On Tuesday we return to Ysbyty Gwynedd to see the surgeon who operated on Pauline's leg in April so we will be getting an expert's opinion on her progress. Watch this space!
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