Plans

We're intending to go over to Carnforth this afternoon. Or, at least, that was the intention. I'm beginning to question the wisdom of this idea. Rain is slashing down. Winds are bowing over the trees.

The purpose of the trip was primarily to go to Booths supermarket & top up on our freezer meals & cheeses - the former are expensive but infinitely superior to the average & useful to have in when you couldn't be bothered to cook, the latter for the sheer range & variety. However, there is nothing apart from some bread that is essential for today's dinner. I've just made some carrot & coriander soup, which we thought we'd follow with the last of the Booths' ready meals that we have in stock, a chicken Alexander.

To not go would spoil our plans for tomorrow. Then, we're hoping for a trip down to Wigan. Why Wigan you might ask? It's not the highest place on the tourist map. We're going to look at bathrooms. We've decided the time has come to turn our attention to the next home improvement project, a new bathroom. I spoke to the Occupational Therapist a little while ago. She suggested three companies which specialist in bathrooms designed for disabled people, one of whom has a showroom in Wigan. So we're off to get some ideas.

It is getting increasingly difficult to use our present bathroom. The Fox is finding standing in the bath to use the overhead shower increasingly dangerous with no grab handle to hold, a slippery base when wet, as well as slightly curved surfaces as the base becomes the verticals of the bath. As for me, I can cope with the bath board, but I'm having increasing difficulty getting up from my seat when I have a wash at the sink. The space between the sink & the toilet is too small to put a seat with arms, or even to really get purchase on a grab rail, to help me get up. We'd like to re-arrange the lot, getting rid of the bath (which we've never used) & making it into a shower room. That way there should be more space to move the sink & possibly toilet. We're half contemplating a wet room. The extra space would also mean that, if I became a full time wheelchair user, as has been suggested, there would be room enough to manoeuvre the wheelchair. As I say we need to have a look at what's on offer. Looking at brochures is just not enough.

So, at the moment, I'm hoping the storm will have blown itself out by this afternoon, & the rain dried out so we can get Carnforth done today & have tomorrow free for Wigan.