Oh dear...my car had to be moved yesterday so that my gardener could work on the hedge which was threatening to get out of control so I now have a tidy hedge but my car is around the back of the house. This in itself isn’t a problem but it means that anyone going past will assume me to be out. Somehow that worries me so I fully intend to move it back....this will mean taking it out onto the main road to get it back to its usual position. So why does this worry me? I have become timid in my old age. It’s true that the road outside is very busy just now..Cornwall is full. No argument there...I haven’t seen so much traffic on the road before....Apparently all the hotels and the bed and breakfast places are having a good year...the theory is that people who would normally go abroad have come here instead. Even before eight o’clock this morning the noise of the traffic is incredibly busy. So maybe my car should just stay put . The problem is that anyone thinking of visiting will assume me to be out if my car isn’t in the right place. I don’t know why this bothers me but it does. My head is telling me not to worry about the car...until we get to September and everybody goes home. But my heart just wants it back to where it has been parked for years. Still in bed I really don’t want to start shifting my car around...but it keeps cropping up... we are not used to quite so many visitors here even in August , this is a most unusual year. But people keep telling me horror stories that have made me even more timid. It’s windy out there this morning too so if I’m sensible I should just leave everything where it is... especially as I have a food delivery arriving from Marks and Spencer and that’s definitely not something to miss!
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2 comments:
I don't blame you for being timid. If you are unused to very busy roads it can be frightening. When I was visiting Jen in Hospital in London, each journey was difficult, whichever way I went to get there. I know all of the back routes, but sadly, so do everyone else, so what used to be a useful route is now a rat run.
I have to take her back for appointments in October, which might mean not being so busy, but the appointment is 3 pm, meaning I will be driving against the exiting traffic going, but in the rush hour returning. And as she is to be fitted with a heart monitor, which has to be returned the following day, it will mean two journeys repeated.
I wonder why they can't do these things locally? We have plenty of local facilities, but the London Boroughs are tied into CCG's which pay the bills. When Jen had her stroke, she was taken to an acute centre in Kent, different budget, but once the emergency was over, she was transferred by ambulance to the London Hospital for purely budgetary reasons. The Kent Hospital had an acute and rehab unit, closer than the London one and easier to get to for me, but her needs and my needs meant the the money talked and she was moved, despite my protests.
Sometimes the NHS for all, depends on a post code lottery. The Kent hospital parking charges were very cheap, the London parking charges were three times higher. For the Kent Hospital, I could call the ward direct, for the London one I had to go through a switchboard, which kept you on hold to listen to a five minute spiel about the virus, no visiting permitted and than a round robin of options to choose and extension or say the name of the person you needed to speak to. The phone bills and parking charges cost an additional £120 for the times she was in. Additional expense for me, not for the NHS. Promises of the removal of parking charges for families at hospitals are so much political hot air.
We put our car in the garage in the hope people passing will assume we are out...hate unexpected visitors so that keeps them away:)
All Hotels still have to maintain social distancing so have no choice but to take less people than normal...many are struggling to survive sadly.
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