The hospital trip was a real waste of time. We duly got there in plenty of time. We stood in a queue for ten minutes while the receptionist sorted out the one person in front of us - reckoned the computer was on the go slow! Meanwhile the chap behind us enquired whether there was even a receptionist working. We assured him there was. Eventually she finished with the man in front of us. The Fox moved forward & handed over his letter of appointment to be told the session had been cancelled. We asked why they hadn't told us. Even if the session was cancelled that day they could have phoned us as our telephone number is on file. She had no idea & entirely agreed with us. We went away disgruntled, to see the chap who'd been behind us in the queue following almost immediately. Presumably the same thing had happened to him.
Fortunately the day was redeemed by our visit to the Asian food shop, where we eventually chose two bottles of soy sauce. That was quite a challenge. There were shelf loads of them, differing slightly according to where they came from. We could have had Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Thai, Japanese...... We plonked on a couple of Chinese ones since we cook primarily Chinese food. It's certainly different from Morrisons where you're hard put sometimes to find one bottle, let alone a choice.
We also successfully got the sandals. Not one pair but two. They were both on sale so the two pairs more or less cost the price of one full price pair. That should be me sorted for sandals for quite a while.
The shopping we did before setting off to the hospital. Afterwards we decided to keep to the idea of eating out. We'd been looking forward to it & we hadn't bothered to prepare anything expecting to be eating out. We also didn't fancy trying to get around Lancaster in the midst of rush hour. We decided to go to Caton, a small village on the east side of Lancaster, like the hospital, & so avoid the traffic standstill that is Lancaster at that time of day.
We took the country road over to Quernmore, so avoiding Lancaster city centre. It's ages since we've been that way. It really is beautiful. At one point, you can see over the city of Lancaster, with its old buildings such as the priory church & castle, across the sands of Morecambe Bay, to the Lakeland fells. It was so clear & bright. Fabulous.
The pub we went to I suspect we would have liked if it had only been more accessible. It was impossible to go to the loo without going around the outside of the building & even then the last bit was too narrow for a wheelchair so I had to walk. I managed but it's not something I would want to repeat too often. It's amazing how not being able to get to the toilet plays on your mind when you are eating & drinking out.
By the time we were ready to leave, the traffic had virtually disappeared from Lancaster so there was no hold up getting through the city - much easier & faster than it would have been earlier at 5pm.
The meal & the successful shop did mean the afternoon wasn't an entire waste of time. Now we await another letter, another appointment time, & probably another late trip into Lancaster. What's the betting it will be when we're away in Germany?
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