Jack & Jill

He hadn't been away more than a day before the problems began. Daddy Shortlegs has also forgotten his medication. Not all of it; he has about 4 days worth of some of the pharmacopoeia he drags about with him but he's away for two weeks. His solution is to shout down the phone and exclaim his need for Richard to come and get him. Richard doesn't want to as he has a full weekend of work. His second option is to take a train into Cheltenham and have Richard meet him there - neither are used to Cheltenham and you can only imagine the disaster as both turn up late, at the wrong place and then Daddy forgets where he is and why, gets confused, panicky, shouty.

Only last week on his way to the barbers (on the only day of the week when they are closed) he was accosted by a woman who thought he seemed destined to fall. She dragged him home and on the doorstep announced she was 'Jill'. So Jill had brought Jack home - no-one had fallen and there wasn't the least hint of vinegar. Or brown paper.

Our solution is for him to visit a GP or A&E and have a new prescription filled (of course he is in England where prescriptions still cost money but as a pensioner there are no costs attached). We don't want him back until the kitchen is in place. That's our story and we're sticking to it!