Catrin's crutches
Well it seems a funny kind of souvenir. On her descent from the dune Catrin's ankle was hurting. After a good night's rest it was much worse. I was off to engage the French Health Service with Ben, so Pat took Catrin to the Clinique Mutuelle near our home.
They didn't x-ray. The doctor said it was evidently not broken, but that Catrin should stay off her foot for two days, wear a tight sticky bandage on it for ten days and use crutches for at least two days. We hired the crutches for 1,50€ a week !
So she missed her last but one day of school, but she really wanted to go in for the last day because she's changing school, her teacher is going on maternity leave and we'd got her some baby-grows. So she joined the queue of children on crutches waiting for the lift into the school. Pat said when they emerged at the first floor a little lad shouted 'les handicappées, les handicappées !'
I scuttled off into town this morning to pay a long-outstanding bill for the Bibles we have been distributing to the students. It turned out that the bill had been sent to the wrong address. We'd chased it up before but been told 'No, don't worry, the bill will arrive in due course.' Anyway, now it's done.
And to buy a couple of books for someone as a birthday present. I hesitated between George Verwer ( kind of like a strong coffee ) and Graeme Goldsworthy ( kind of like a beef and horseradish sandwich ) so in the end I bought them both. I used to be really indecisive, but I'm not so sure any more.
Incidentally we had a good time with the Health Service and a very nice chap who told us we needed a list of five documents : pièces d'identité, justificatif de domicile, cartes européennes de santé, feuilles de soin, RIB ( rélevé d'identité bancaire ). We had three of them so we had to pop home for the others. Then when we went back we discovered that some of the feuilles de soin were lacking their prescriptions and stickers - but Ben was going to go back along with them.
It really is 'tri chynnig i gymro' (three tries for a welshman) here. Getting it all done on the third attempt is the general rule and about as good as it gets. We were both well-pleased. And we got the same chap when we went back ! Thanks !
They didn't x-ray. The doctor said it was evidently not broken, but that Catrin should stay off her foot for two days, wear a tight sticky bandage on it for ten days and use crutches for at least two days. We hired the crutches for 1,50€ a week !
So she missed her last but one day of school, but she really wanted to go in for the last day because she's changing school, her teacher is going on maternity leave and we'd got her some baby-grows. So she joined the queue of children on crutches waiting for the lift into the school. Pat said when they emerged at the first floor a little lad shouted 'les handicappées, les handicappées !'
I scuttled off into town this morning to pay a long-outstanding bill for the Bibles we have been distributing to the students. It turned out that the bill had been sent to the wrong address. We'd chased it up before but been told 'No, don't worry, the bill will arrive in due course.' Anyway, now it's done.
And to buy a couple of books for someone as a birthday present. I hesitated between George Verwer ( kind of like a strong coffee ) and Graeme Goldsworthy ( kind of like a beef and horseradish sandwich ) so in the end I bought them both. I used to be really indecisive, but I'm not so sure any more.
Incidentally we had a good time with the Health Service and a very nice chap who told us we needed a list of five documents : pièces d'identité, justificatif de domicile, cartes européennes de santé, feuilles de soin, RIB ( rélevé d'identité bancaire ). We had three of them so we had to pop home for the others. Then when we went back we discovered that some of the feuilles de soin were lacking their prescriptions and stickers - but Ben was going to go back along with them.
It really is 'tri chynnig i gymro' (three tries for a welshman) here. Getting it all done on the third attempt is the general rule and about as good as it gets. We were both well-pleased. And we got the same chap when we went back ! Thanks !
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