Listing helps calm my mind ...

Just so you know, here is our timetable starting today:

Wednesday 19th:

• Clean boat - all inside surfaces, change sheets, 
• wash said sheets and attempt to get them dry 
• send cheese scone recipe and John Wiper's details to Lisa and David

Thursday 20th:

• Haircut for Marilyn - long overdue as it is scruffy and far too long - be quiet, Mick ...
• Welcome Bernice and Roy, who live in their bus in NZ and are over here visiting their daughter and brand new grandson - and no, we have't met them before

Friday 21st: into Edgbaston:

• to BMI Priory leaving the boat about 5pm, for an appointment for the consenting process and a second iodine cleaning of David’s eyelashes - it’s one of the things Imran Masood and Pete Shah do prior to surgery to reduce the possibility of infection
• returning to the boat about 9.30pm

Saturday 22nd:

• into Edgbaston to stay in a hotel for two nights. 
• Leaving the boat about 1pm Saturday

Sunday 23rd,

• 8am: into the hospital,
• back at the hotel anytime from noon to 2pm or later, depending on where David is on the list
• staying overnight at the hotel so no public transport required after his general anaesthetic

Monday 24th:

• checking out of the hotel
• maybe going to BMI Priory for a post op appointment, or to Birmingham Hospital
• we are planning on going back to the boat that afternoon/evening

Tuesday 25th:

• blobbing on board, or
• possibly the post op appointment - they don’t tell you till the day of the operation, dammit!

Wednesday 26th:

• Salvi and Ann Persico arriving and probably staying until about 4 July 
• I have warned them to bring warmer clothes - they have been swanning about in Italy in 25+ degree heat, and are in for a rude awakening here, I fear

• our thinking currently is that we will head for Stratford on Avon, and they will do pretty much all of the work, with David wearing his safety googles and watching quietly (yeah right)

26 June for the next month or so:

• we will be moving around but not venturing too far from being accessible to Birmingham by train - Stratford fits with that, as does Oxford or pretty much anywhere give rail travel possibilities

Phew! It is good for me to have this in a list - helps me get it clear in my mind.

David has had to postpone doing the tax returns as he cannot see well enough to read the handwritten notes he prepared before we left home. He's putting them off till Monday, so he is clearly positive about the outcome of surgery. Good thing, too.