DBK
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Phone call this morning from No 2 Son: "I'm in Totnes Hospital, a pile of plaster board fell on my leg."
After collecting said son from Totnes Hospital ("No X-Ray on Fridays" - but that wasn't their fault, the staff were very good) I took him to Derriford in Plymouth.
To cut to the quick, said son has broken his leg just below the knee. It could have been worse. The plaster board might have landed on his head, which would have left us with a bill for a dozen broken sheets of plaster board.
But the MH aspect of this is that we were supposed (hint) to be getting the ferry to France next Thursday. I decided to ring Brittany Ferries but almost put it off until tomorrow. I'm glad I didn't. The options were:
1. Cancel today, lose £35 deposit but get full refund for the rest (£400+) as a voucher valid for two years.
2. Cancel tomorrow and lose everything.
3. Reschedule but I had to tell them the new dates today.
No guesses we chose Option 1. Option 2 was a close shave and Option 3 wasn't too attractive - we wanted to go to France in September and October because the weather should be reasonable. Shift it all back to November and December? Not so attractive.
So the lesson learned is if you are going to cancel your ferry journey with BF do it at least 7 days ahead - I thought we were outside the window, sailing next Thursday but today is Friday. However, they are obviously using a pre-Brexit calender and we got off lightly.
Said son, Robert Laidler, is in Shaugh Ward at Derriford if anyone wants to send him some grapes.
I should add Robert lives with us so we are his carers now - for the next few weeks.
After collecting said son from Totnes Hospital ("No X-Ray on Fridays" - but that wasn't their fault, the staff were very good) I took him to Derriford in Plymouth.
To cut to the quick, said son has broken his leg just below the knee. It could have been worse. The plaster board might have landed on his head, which would have left us with a bill for a dozen broken sheets of plaster board.
But the MH aspect of this is that we were supposed (hint) to be getting the ferry to France next Thursday. I decided to ring Brittany Ferries but almost put it off until tomorrow. I'm glad I didn't. The options were:
1. Cancel today, lose £35 deposit but get full refund for the rest (£400+) as a voucher valid for two years.
2. Cancel tomorrow and lose everything.
3. Reschedule but I had to tell them the new dates today.
No guesses we chose Option 1. Option 2 was a close shave and Option 3 wasn't too attractive - we wanted to go to France in September and October because the weather should be reasonable. Shift it all back to November and December? Not so attractive.
So the lesson learned is if you are going to cancel your ferry journey with BF do it at least 7 days ahead - I thought we were outside the window, sailing next Thursday but today is Friday. However, they are obviously using a pre-Brexit calender and we got off lightly.
Said son, Robert Laidler, is in Shaugh Ward at Derriford if anyone wants to send him some grapes.
I should add Robert lives with us so we are his carers now - for the next few weeks.
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