School exams start today - online. Sian has her first exam at eight o'clock so we have to make sure everything is set up and ready. I have to take my dad to the eye specialist at 9.30 which means I also have to get him up, give him breakfast and time to get ready. By nine o'clock, it is obvious that we are running late so I phone the eye specialist to see if we can move the appointment forward an hour. No one answers.
At 9.30, the eye specialist himself phones and asks if we are coming and I explain that I tried to phone and move the appointment. He says that he will be in surgery at 10.30. Can we come as soon as possible? Quickly, I bundle my dad into the car and zoom across town. We arrive at the eye clinic in a cloud of dust only to find that we have to wait. And we wait. And we wait. Eventually, I ask the receptionist if the eye specialist knows we are waiting. 'Yes,' she says. 'But he's not here. He's in surgery.' He arrives at 10.45.
After the appointment, we go and have a cup of coffee and slice of cake at my favourite place, Still Haven. My dad is much more jolly than he was the last time we went out for coffee. I buy a jasmine. I love jasmine, but I have never been successful at growing it - well, it grows, but it doesn't flower. This one is already full of flowers so hopefully there is not much I can do to kill them off.
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