Peroxide blonde!

Today, I coughed myself awake at 5am!! great!, having done this I thought I would read as there was no point trying to sleep, strangely though I did fall asleep with my book, and that is how I was when my husband brought me a cup of tea after his shift.
I got up and took Lit'lun down to the church on my way to do the horses, Red was shod yesterday and he found that she had a condition called seedy toe in all four feet, Blonde bird got some hydrogen peroxide and a syringe so that we could administer the fluid up into the holes the farrier had made in her feet.
I mucked out and gave them their breakfast before returning home.
I still don't feel 100% yet so was still moping around, until it was time for me to go and get some fresh veg and bread and do the evening ablutions at the stables.
As I syringed the peroxide into the holes in reds feet my fingers slipped pushing the plunger down much harder than I intended and shooting it up into my face, I was glad of the sun glasses! The weather forecast is for rain tomorrow so I decided to put a light weight waterproof rug on Red (she is an old lady after all) Mouse can manage without. Her cuts are still nice and clean so it won't be long before I will be able to take the staples out. I just have to wait for the vets bill now!
Back home I made a cottage pie for my Husband and Lit'lun and a salad with jacket potato for me.
I will be able to book fit with work tomorrow all being well.

Bird flu

Bird flu is worse than man flu, and I know because for the last few days I have had it!!
I managed to do my two day shifts, when there was only a couple of patients who were actually worse off than I was, but had to book sick in the end, I had a temp of37.8, and couldn't stop coughing, my nose would give Rudolph a run for his money, and as for the shivers!!!
During my fluey cold time I have done nothing worth mentioning.
But apologise for the lack of blog.
Sorry.x

Two chilled days

Monday, I was supposed to be working, but as it wasn't a rostered shift I was able to cancel, so that I could see to Mouse. When I got to the yard I was worried as to what I would find, had she pulled out the staples, or even torn the wound open further, I made up their feeds and walked down to the field, they were both happily stood there waiting to be fed all neat and tidy and Mouses face was all intact clean and dry.
Huge relief!
After mucking them out, I went back home to do some laundry, then took the dog out for a run, since taking her out with my friends dogs, she has been quite happy to be around small dogs, where as before she wasn't interested in any dogs at all and ignored them completely. Today we must have met at least 7 small dogs which is very unusual for us, we rarely meet anyone, to be honest it was such lovely weather it was no wonder there were so many people out in it.
Back home I got a quick shower then went food shopping Joy!
Then it was cooking and washing up before chilling out with a nice glass of red wine.
This morning the Blonde bird is doing the horses (she did them last night too they weren't just left with no food!)
So I had a bit of a lay in, before getting up at a nice leisurely pace, my husband has Uni today so he set off for London, Whilst I went down to get some horse feed and walk the dog. The rest of the day was nice and slow.I picked Lit'lun and her friend up from the park and we went down to feed the horses before dropping her friend back home.
Lit'lun and I had a pizza for dinner, then I had to get sorted out for work tomorrow.

Mouse trap

During the night the mouse trap that we have had to put in the loft, went off! So this morning my husband went up to see what was going on, the trap was empty, no cheese and no mouse! ahh well lets hope it scared him off! I went down to the stables and decided that I would do some schooling with Mouse, as it's the first time I have done anything in the school I just put an Enya CD on and got her use to the school then the kit, I kept her moving and she did really well after 15 minutes or so I hosed her down and went to take her up the track to the field we had, up to this point had a really good and productive day. She started to grab mouth fulls of grass from the track which I let her do, then she lifted her head up underneath the catch on a gate, the sound was so loud and hard that even thinking about it makes me cringe. I pulled her head round so that I could see what was going on, and at first glance it looked as if she had just taken a layer of hair off her forehead, I ran my hand across it and was surprised to find it covered in blood! Back in the yard I had a closer look, she had cut her head open full thickness, right down to the bone in a "U" shape, I rang the Blonde bird for a second opinion, as I didn't want to call the vet if it wasn't necessary, especially on a Sunday, but there again I didn't want to withhold treatment if that is what she needed. We decided to call the vet, as on inspection it was much bigger than we first thought. When he arrived he had to sedate her then clean it out before putting some local anaesthetic in and stapling the two edges together, poor Mouse she did look sorry for herself, especially when she was swaying to and fro with her head down due to the anaesthetic. we had to wait for a good two hours before she was with it enough to go out again, Red was very pleased to see her back again, as she had been without her field mate all day. Above are a couple of pictures of her in the school before the accident.

Swapsies

Last night I was on a night shift, My crew mate was the same one as I was working with on my second day which again meant that we had to swap with a crew from a neighbouring station. Before the swap could be done however we got a job, to a rather large lady having an asthma attack, she was really quite poorly so having got her onto our stretcher we took her into the nearest receiving hospital.
We were then able to swap crew mates, I ended up with a crew mate I had not met before (once again) he seemed nice enough, and when we got the second job of the night he even offered to go in the back with the patient as I was heaving and gagging, due to the smells that came with this particular patient, I declined as I have a small pot of Vicks vapour rub in my pocket and that usually does the trick. The patient was a very ill lady indeed, we weren't really sure what was going on with her, but I am hoping to find out when I am on duty next, it could have been an upper GI bleed judging by what she was bringing up, but what ever it was it was very unpleasant, her obs were deteriorating en route too.
Once back at base we were given a meal break and that is where we stayed for the rest of the night. Amazingly, but could I sleep? No my crew mate doesn't sleep on nights but he does watch tv and not quietly either, so what could have been a very good night turned out to be double edged! when I got home, I just fell asleep and that is where I stayed until about 1pm when I got up and had a cuppa.
Gail and her daughter came round for a natter and see Twiglet which was nice, I hope we can manage to stay in touch now after the years that flew by since we grew up and left school.
I went down to the stables to do the night hay and feed then once back home that was it for the night.

Simply Amazing

Only start to watch this if you have 15 minutes or so free, as it is so compelling you won't want to stop watching.
It is a video of an amazing French man and his horses, he has no head collars, bridles or saddles, just two schooling whips (mainly used for pointing he doesn't beat them up!) It has a music background, and I have to apologise, as my friends and I keep saying "oh wow"!
It was filmed using my mobile phone so again I apologise, for the quality, it doesn't detract from the beauty of what you are witnessing though.

Enjoy!

British Open Show Jumping

Yesterday, I went to the British Open show jumping in Birmingham, I was given a ticket by Storm who had one spare as one of her friends couldn't go.
There were 5 of us in all going as a group, Storm, Millie, Millie's sister Molly and their mother Mandy! (yes the names have been changed!) Molly who actually lives North of Birmingham met us there.
We went in and had a wander around the trade stands, We found the Puissance wall which was at least a foot taller than me, it had been built to the height of the winning jump from last year which was over 7 feet tall! Then went and got some lunch, Storm and I had jacket potatoes the others had brought sandwiches from home.
Having eaten we went into the arena to watch the start of the show jumping, there were loads of top riders competing so it was a good competition.
When the first competition had finished there was a display of horsemanship by a Frenchman who I am embarrassed to say I can't remember his name, which I am hoping to post as a film clip in a separate blog.
There was a display of barrel racing with western style riding which had the audience whooping and cheering, talk about fast and fun!
We were given a display by the Mounted section of the Metropolitan Police, they rode through rings of fire a paper wall (showing trust by horse and rider) they removed their stirrups, and jackets whilst trotting and jumping and removed their saddles and held them above their heads as they jumped too. It was a brilliant display of trust and horsemanship.
Back to the show jumping there was the next competition, the fences seemed even higher!
The junior Bronze medalist (Olympics) was the only casualty of the day, his horse fell and hurt its self, not badly though, both horse and rider got up and walked out.
As we were wandering around the trade stands we saw Mylene Class filming for her TV show, ten years younger, she chatted to us and gave us an autographed photo, and then posed to have her photo taken with us.
The day was absolutely brilliant.
I owe a huge thanks to Storm for inviting me. xx

When the dog bites, when the bee.......

These are not my favorite things!
After hearing my Husband snore all night!! And an extremely loud thunder storm travel back and forth past our house, I got up feeling absolutely exhausted!
Today was my second day shift, I got mine and Tepic's mugs out and made us tea as which ever of us gets in first usually does, so imagine my surprise when it wasn't Tepic that came in! Instead it was Steve, I decanted the tea surreptitiously into his mug and washed the other one up.
Just before we started the shift we were told that Steve had to swap vehicles to go with another crew mate and I was to work with a paramedic I had never met before called Barry, he turned out to be mad! and we had a really good day, well except for the first job, I was attending, we were sent to a 7 year old girl who had fallen out of a tree but not just any tree oh no, a 30 foot tall tree and yep she had fallen from the top! she was not complaining of any neck or back pain but because of the mechanism we felt it necessary to put a neck collar on her and immobilize her using a vacuum mattress just to be on the safe side, just as we were about to go the mothers friend arrived with a large weimeraner dog, which she informed me was a guard dog! It took one look at me kneeling on the floor and rushed over, I told it to go away but it decided to bite me grabbing my hand!
I did mention to the owner the fact that an ambulance was parked outside which would suggest that there were strangers in the house and that knowing the dog was a guard dog she should have maybe kept the bloody thing on its lead!!
The dog tore my glove off and left a few red marks but fortunately didn't break the skin too much.
Still we got our little girl safely into hospital where a team of 6 were awaiting her arrival, 30 feet is a long way to fall!
Our second, (and last) job was to a nursing home to collect a 96 year old lady who had severe bed sores.
Once we had safely got her into hospital we asked about our 7 year old, fortunately she had just sustained a few grazes and had already been dis charged, I then asked about an unknown female patient I had taken in on my night shift, with a GCS of 3, she had self discharged herself from intensive care as soon as she had come round! I think this lady may have a short life expectancy ...... some people never learn, we found out she had dis charged herself on two other occasions also!
It was then that I realised that my thumb ring was missing I told my crew mate and said that I thought the dog may have dragged it off earlier, he rang the patients house and we drove back where the 7 year old's mother told me she had found it ( they had shut the dog away knowing we were en route, how good of them!) I was pleased to get it back and amazed to find out that our 7 year old patient was now jumping on the trampoline in the back garden!!!!!
We were slightly late off tonight and almost as soon as we had taken our kit off the ambulance the night crew got a job. I hope they have a good shift, the start doesn't look promising.
This morning at work I had a sort out in the fridge as it had loads of out of date food in it, there was also some stale bread which I put out for the birds, while I was out there I noticed a small flower all alone in the scrubby grass and weeds and took this photo of it.

Back to the grind stone.

Tuesday when I got in to work the night crew said they had just had the best night shift in a very long time, Hamster and I looked at each other both thinking the same, "great we have it all to come!"
We were sent to cover another station but before we got to the end of the road we were sent back to our station, which is where we stayed until about 11am when we were sent to do a job, an elderly retired doctor had fallen up the kerb and hit her nose, when we got there the pool of blood was huge and we thought we had a bad facial injury to contend with, but after mopping her up in the back of the ambulance it was just a minor cut and a nose bleed, we drove her home and did a couple of sets of obs before she signed our non conveyance form and we left her with her family to enjoy the rest of what was turning out to be a lovely sunny day. Our next job was at about 2pm, yes I did say 2pm we were so quiet it was unbelievable! We were called to a gentleman who was passing rather alarming amounts of blood into his catheter bag, this job was a doctors urgent, so we made our way into hospital where he could get his catheter sorted out.
Back at base, I am amazed to say once given our meal break that is where we stayed, until the end of the shift!
When the night crew got in one of them offered to do my first night shift which is Thursday night as I have been offered a ticket to the British Open Show Jumping which is held in Birmingham NEC, Bless him. Thanks Cherry.
On my way home from work I happened to see three deer grazing beside the road, after watching them for a good 5 minutes I suddenly thought I should take a photo, by the time I had got the camera sorted out only one of them remained, but it was lovely to watch them.

Sunshine on a bank holiday!!

Monday morning saw me filling up water troughs down at the stables, and mucking two days worth of horse poo out also, I was slightly (very) annoyed to find that whilst I had been waiting for the troughs to fill, someone had dis connected the hose so that they could shampoo their horse! They got the sharp edge of my tongue to say the least! I was fuming.
It was a lovely day though so after we had eaten our lunch my Husband, Lit'lun, the dog and I went for a walk through the woods a stones through-ish from where we live. It was lovely.
My Husband has a new camera, which I got him for his birthday and he was busy taking photos, to try it out, I have a camera on my mobile phone which I use and it saves me carrying two things around with me. Even if the photos aren't quite the same quality!

The wanderer returns

Today is the day that my Husband returns from uni, this week has certainly dragged by slowly, still at last he is coming home.
Beth had to go to work today which left Lit'lun, who I collected from my mums yesterday, and I to have a day together. We went down to do the horses first, then went to see one of my friends who I hadn't seen for years, Millie, she lives not far from the horses but still we seem to loose touch for years on end. We met when we were both pregnant, we both had a girl and unknown to each other both called them Beth. Millie had her Beth first, so she is known by all as Beth 1, my Beth is Beth 2, these two have kept in touch also which is really nice.
On our arrival Millie made us a drink and hot cross bun, which were home made and the best I have tasted for years!! then we sat and chatter for about three hours solid. She has quite a menagerie, consisting of, I think, 6 cats, a tortoise two snakes, a couple of bearded dragons and some cold water fish, if I have missed out any I apologise.
As we left we agreed not to leave it so long until we catch up again.
Lit'lun and I went home for some lunch then I decided to clean out Twiglet, only then did I realise I have no cat litter for the tray under her wheel, hedgehogs do like to poop as they run and try as I might I can't train her to get off the wheel first! Doh! still she only goes there and the tray not in the rest of the viv.
So out we went again, to my friend Storm's shop to get some cat litter then we put the horses food and hay out before coming home.
When we got back my Husband was already home, safe and sound and glad to be back.
After dinner we talked and talked and didn't get to bed until gone 1 am, and I have to be up in the morning to do the horses.
The above picture is one of Millie's cats who climbs up the wall so that Millie knows he wants to come in!! clever cat.

Nights again

My two night shifts were busy, we didn't do too much cover which was nice but the jobs we had were proper jobs, even the girl we found at the railway station, with no ID, she had clearly been drinking, but what else was going on we still don't know, she was unconscious (gcs 3) with fixed and dilated pupils. We took her into hospital and she was given a brain scan, the last we heard was she was in intensive care having been intubated.
We were also sent to a lady who had fallen out of bed and cut her head on her chest of drawers, she made a good job of it, having left a big chunk of skin on the floor, we could clearly see bone, poor little thing was so confused she had no idea what was going on but was quite happy for us to take her in to hospital.
We were also sent to the police custody suite to pick up a "Firm" member, who had been in a fight and then been arrested. He was complaining of pain in his liver, I think he thought if he went to hospital he could do a runner but the police had him cuffed and came along with us.
For anyone who has no idea, I only found out about a year ago, what a firm is I will give you my take on it.
FIRM = A group of thugs who claim to be football supporters of a particular club who go around beating the wotsits out of other Firms, and genuine football supporters who get in their way.
One member told me its highly organised and has nothing to do with football, another said Football is important! when I replied its just a game he stopped being cooperative.
Strangely on both occasions I have come into contact with a firm it has been Manchester United's.
Other than the jobs when we got to our base for the start of shift there was a huge box of holdalls one for each of us, they are green with the service logo on and so far two of them have faulty zips, ahh well, we have no idea what they are for as we haven't been told. Just that there is one each.

Horse food and hair do!

Today when I got up I was expecting it to be raining, fortunately it wasn't, I went down to the yard and fed and hayed the horses, on the way I had to pick up a couple of bags of horse food for Mouse as she had run out completely.
Back home I mucked out the rabbit, and Twiglet and went shopping, just as I finished Beth rang to see if I wanted to meet her for lunch, I drove down to the car park behind where she works as a hairdresser.
We got some sandwiches and sat outside to eat them, she only had half an hour but as we finished our lunch she asked what I was doing for the afternoon, I said that I intended to do nothing to much as I was on nights and just wanted to chill out. She said she had no clients in so would I like to have my high lights done.
I had been booked in for May which was the earliest that she could fit me in and they were in great need of being done so I went in and spent the afternoon sitting in the salon having them done. I just got out in time to go home and change then left for work.
I wonder what delights I have in store for me tonight??

Poop

Today I over slept, I can't believe it, I rushed around getting ready and letting the dog out, then I noticed that the draught excluder was about a foot away from the door, it looked as if someone had come in during the night, very odd! I went into the lounge to turn Twiglets light on only to find the vivarium door open, fortunately she was curled up in her bed, that's why the draught excluder had moved!
I got to work in time, amazingly, but how different was today going to be! I was to attend first today, and other than lots of cover moves I only attended to one patient, a liver failure who's electrolytes were all over the place causing all sorts of problems.
we got a late meal break and our Clinical Operations Manager (COM) came in to see us on a flying visit, he is a really nice guy I think we are all glad to have him as our Com.
Then it was Tepics turn to attend.....Oh dear, all his jobs were similar in one respect, they had all been incontinent in one way or the other!
under my nose, which Anyone who knows me will know that I have a really weak stomach for smells, bad smells, and one of his patients had me gagging for a good 10 minutes, I had to go outside and use Vick'sTepic and the single responder we were backing up thought was very amusing, ahh but I was in the front of the ambulance and he was ion the back (haha) all the way to the hospital, so I think maybe I had the last laugh.
Every one was talking about curry today, so when I got home I made a vegetable curry and some Bombay potatoes for Beth and I, although Beth wont be home till late as she has gone to a hairdressing competition/expo, in London.

Gerbil

As I drove to work this morning I wondered if I would be single manned, we have 3 crew mates on the rota we do, one who is a regular crew mate and two others who alternate shifts, and one of mine has gone to do a different job, leaving a gap.
I pulled into the station car park behind a car I didn't recognise, but when the driver got out I saw it was Gerbil, he told me I had drawn the short straw and he was one of my new crew mates, personally, I think he drew the short straw, well my regular crew mate would say he had!!
The day started slowly, I was driving for the first half of the shift and I think Gerbil saw two patients, both of which we took into hospital. Once we had changed over I also did two patients but only one of mine went in, although strangely for a Sunday, all our patients were fallers and all were over 78 years old, we had no sporting injuries or any other type of job! Very strange! Very good though, no kids in any shape or form, that is my kind of shift.
I drove home and found that Beth had hovered all through the house, cleaned the bathroom, and the microwave. Plus she did her laundry, what a busy girl!
Then I went and watched Lewis which I love before getting Twiglet out for a run around. My Husband rang again this evening, he has had two busy days, still two down.........

Sad

Today, Saturday, I got up early to do the horses so that I would get back in time to see my Husband before he went away for the week. He is going to uni for a week for his theological training, and I don't want him to go!
After he left I took Lit'lun over to my mums, as I am working in the morning and she can't stay on her own.
I took the dog with me as she loves going over there and Mum loves to see her. We had a cuppa before I went to do the horses and go home.
Beth and I had a jacket potato and salad for dinner, and I got my things ready for work. Then I had a phone call which left me feeling awful, and I really don't think I have any need too, but I guess people see things differently from each other!
I let Twiglet have a run around while waited up for my husband to ring which he did, making me feel much better then I went to bed.

Nuisance phone calls!!!!!

Just recently we have been getting very annoying calls from "Unknown" numbers, I have spoken to BT and they suggest picking up and immediately hanging up again.
I on the other hand do have a rather warped and twisted take on things, and have invented a game, together with my Husband we have devised a way to enjoy our unwanted calls and even look forward to them with what I can only describe as excitement.
We have invented a new game!
At this point I would like to say, I have caller preference so I am not on any lists for cold calling, I have a ban on withheld numbers (people are told we do not except withheld numbers by a recorded message), and I have caller ID. Its not as if I haven't done my bit, that and the fact that these people have no legitimate business with me, I have not asked them to phone or want them to phone so........................................
Let the games begin!!
Firstly you will need a pen and paper, as it is far easier to do if you have a few bullet points, then you wait for the call........ when you hear the tell tale pause before someone speaks this is your chance to gather your thoughts..... then just as they begin to speak you say....

Scotland yard anti terrorist branch how can I help? or
You are through to the sexual health help line offer a list of options, each with a press 1 or press 2 option or..... well the list is endless I am looking forward to my next unknown call you never know, maybe they will flag my number as not to be called........................ I guess I will have to find another way of being naughty then!

Rugs and Dogs

Today when I got to the stables I decided to sort all Mouses rugs out, she has been given loads, and since she has grown, none of them fit her!
I ended up with a pile of about 15 rugs that were no good to us and three that still fit, two outdoor rugs and a stable rug.
I took all the others down to a friend called Jasmin's yard, she has about 20 horses in all so I know that she will have something that will make use of the rugs we don't need.
I was just in time for a cuppa too, so we sat and chatted about all the soon to be arriving foals, about 4 of hers are in foal at the moment!
Whilst we sat, a dog two cockerels and three ducks came into the tack room for a mooch around, all very tame.
I drove back home stopping first at the Blonde birds shop to get Mouse a cooler rug and a light weight waterproof in case we get rain, ha ha I mean for when we do get rain!
After getting a few bits of shopping I threw the dog in the back of the car and drove to meet another friend of mine, Storm, who has two Jack Russell X dogs (just look like cute cairn terriers to me) We walked through the woods with the dogs running free, it was lovely and for the first time, since we lost our Jack Russell to an adder two years ago, The dog actually played with the other two, it was really nice to see, normally she takes no notice of any other dogs even if they are being walked with us.
We agreed to take the three of them out again next week sometime, I am already looking forward to it.
Back home I set to making a chicken pie with the left over roast chicken from yesterday, Then set about a jacket potato and salad for me.
I also got the results of my paramedic entrance exam, I failed, which came as no surprise what so ever.
Back at the horses I hayed and fed, before coming home and chilling out with a glass of wine.
Above is a picture or two of our lovely Jack Russell. R I P little fella. xxx

Happy Birthday Beth

Today is Beth's birthday she is 19!!
My day started early though even before my Husband got home from work, I had to be at the yard for the farrier who was coming to trim Mouses feet, I had also agreed to hold 4 other horses as their owners were busy!
As I lead Mouse into the yard the farrier said "wow she's grown!!"
Great that is just what I needed to hear, she is now 15hh and not yet 2 years old I have no idea just when she will stop growing but I hope its soon.
She had her feet done and the others had their shoes replaced then the Blonde and I sorted out all our things and had a bit of a tidy up.
When I left the yard I collected my mum, went home to collect Beth and change then the three of us went to pizza hut for their buffet after dropping mum back I did the horses early, they did have an early breakfast so I am sure they didn't mind an early tea!
Back home I cooked a roast dinner, then my Husband went out to a meeting and Beth went out with lots of her friends to Tiger Tiger for her Birthday, I hope they have a fun but safe time.

Wednesday.

Today, I again went down to the horses, this time when I got there I was met by one of the girls saying that Mouse had knocked over the water trough and was kicking it to bits, I took the hose up to the field and began the slow task of filling all four water troughs, while they were filling I swapped the batteries over on the electric fence, mucked out the field and did a few other things around that needed doing.
When it was all done I went back to the yard to find the owners of the new livery arriving with all their things, they were going to bring the horse up in the afternoon. This will be interesting as we haven't had a new horse on the field for a while!
I left and went home to do a huge pile of laundry and some house work!
Again we had dinner early as my Husband was on nights, Then my friend Storm came round for a cuppa and a cuddle with Twiglet. We chatted for hours then she left.
I went to bed followed closely by Beth who had come home earlier.
Its her Birthday tomorrow.

No sleep

Once home from my night shift, I went straight out again just changing into jodphurs, I met the Blonde bird and a friend at the yard, we tacked up, Red, the mental mare, and the Blonde mare and went out for a hack, it was lovely and warm, and sunny. Fortunately they were all very well behaved because I was so tired that if they had played up I would have fallen off with out a doubt!
Once back at the yard we put them all out and had a tidy up, before the Blonde and I went into town to do a bit of shopping, she had to get cookie mix for the kids and I had to get minted lamb burgers.
Back home I cooked the dinner early as my husband had to go to work, he's on nights now!!
Then once we had eaten, I went back to the yard to give the horses their feed and hay and rug Red.

busy day

Monday I again got up early, today the Blonde bird is doing the horses though so at least I don't have to do that first!
I drove to the ambulance service HQ where the paramedic entrance exams were taking place.
There were quite a few of us so we were split into two groups, the group I was in went to the clinical training rooms to go one by one to have their basic life support test (CPR), I was so nervous, that although I think the practical went ok I couldn't think of all the answers to one of the questions.
After this I had to do an online literacy and numeracy exam, ohh boy! my maths is pants I will be amazed if I get more than 3 right so I think I have failed that one too! Then it was the clinical paper, well! some of the questions were very ambiguous and others were on things you really don't use in the job, who the hell are they after to be paramedics??? certainly not your average Technician, everyone was shocked at how hard it all was.
I drove home.
Today is my Lovely husbands Birthday, but I won't see him as I how have to get ready for a night shift but he is on days and wont get home until after I have left for work, very unfair.
At work we were almost immediately sent on cover then just moved from cover point to cover point, eventually we got a job, it was to transport a 12 year old boy with a terminal brain tumor, newly diagnosed, from a hospital 25 miles from our base to a hospital in the heart of London, fortunately, a medical team and his mum were to be travelling with us which meant I travelled in the cab, and didn't have to sit watching monitors waiting for something awful to happen (which is what most people do when there are monitors!)
Fortunately we got him to the hospital with no problems, then waited around for the medical team to return to the ambulance so that we could return them to their hospital and go back to base for our meal break.
By the time we got back to base it was half past one, we were both starving and I was thirsty as I had managed to leave my bottle of lime juice on the table and had no drink with me on the ambulance!

The Dungeons.

Sunday, I got up extremely early, a) because I had to go and do the horses before taking Lit'lun and her friend Marie into London and b) the clocks went forward so it was an hour earlier anyway!
We had to start our journey on a bus as there were rail works going on, but as soon as we got on the train I got out my books and spent the whole journey studying, whilst the girls listened to music and played with their phones.
When we got into London we decided to visit the London Dungeons the queueing was a pain but when we arrived at the ticket office she informed me that 999 services get in for free, so I just had to pay for the girls woohoo!!
As we went round the guides explained some of London's gorier history, with rides and visual interactive things to do all the way round, we all enjoyed it! even the very scary ride at the end! which I will say no more about in case you decide to go!!
After this we walked over the bridge and along to Victoria where we had all you can eat pizza and salad at a pizza bar, it was yummy.
We decided to catch the train from Victoria back home as that station was closer, after missing the train by 2 minutes literally we wandered around, then caught the next on, I was back to the study whilst the girls again played with their phones.
about half way through our journey a friend of our family walked passed, we chatted and he said his wife and their dog were also on the train, so we all left our seats and followed him to where they were sitting.
We chatted for the rest of the journey until we had to get on the bus again.
Once back at our stop I drove Marie home and then Lit'lun and I went home too.