This day had all the D’s from yesterday with the addition of super low clouds, or maybe fog making it even more miserable & dreary. We went out in the morning & parked in the Arndale Center but did most of our shopping in the streets outside. We added more prepaid time to our dongle (telephonic Internet connector), and also went to the post office & established that shipping a box of stuff home was not a financially sensible option compared to paying airline fees for an extra bag. We visited Sainsbury’s en route back through the Center to the parking garage, having done P & N’s other shopping, but did not buy. Finally we went back to the flat and had a lunch of good old British bangers with potatoes & beans. In the course of the last two days all ninety-something scans of old family photos, plus all the pictures I have taken so far on the trip are now loaded in both Pam’s and in Nick’s computers.
In the afternoon we unsuccessfully went to the Sovereign swimming center & failed to get a racing swimsuit for Pam to take to Faye, and then were equally unsuccessful at a giant Tesco. We went on to the nursing home & spent the afternoon with Mum-Mum, reorganizing her some more as far as clothes, her drawers in general & her “bar”, and then had desultory conversation & did a couple of crosswords before saying goodbye & heading back to the flat. She was quite bright & looked very well, having had her hair “done” at the home earlier.
To add to my general dissatisfaction I am now convinced, after having visited all the major supermarkets, that Rowntrees no longer package just the red and black fruit pastilles and also that liquid Bovril is unobtainable, at least in southern Britain. More personally, my cold seems to have returned with a vengeance both in the streaming nose & even more irritating (both to me and those around me) is the incessant dry cough, which nothing seems to touch.
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