06.45    It’s raining again and pretty hard from the sound of it.  We will have to try and dodge the showers for our walk this morning.

08.30   I arrive at the surgery for a routine blood check; as usual I am the only one in the waiting room until I go in.  The only thing that I can see is different is that there are five doctors names on the board in surgery this morning, before there was only one.  Where are all these people who were filling the room to bursting at every surgery time, every day?  Surely every patient cannot be dealt with by a phone call, although I am sure that many of the people who used to come with the slightest ailment, are probably deciding better of it.

09.30  The rain has stopped and the sun has come out in a blue cloudless sky, it reminds me of the trip to Bosham the other day when I arrived at high tide, the sky was very moody but it quickly turned to sunshine.  Seeing that photo reminded me of a time more years ago than I care to remember when a boyfriend took me out in his Mk 2 Jaguar.  We went to Bosham and for a meal in the pub overlooking the water, the Jag was parked on what I suppose is called the causeway.  Unfortunately we hadn’t seen the notices about the high tides and the water was inching up the car before we noticed.  The boyfriend’s efforts to impress were rather ruined when he had to wade out to the car, trousers rolled up and get it out of the water just in the nick of time!  These days of course when there are so many people you have to park up in the car park.