What hit me?

Jen managed to use the bathroom and head downstairs without waking me and I surfaced as she went out the front door. I stayed in bed cuddled up with the dog, awake but snuggled up. Then my mobile rings. It's across the room. *sigh* roll out of warm bed and plod round the bed to get phone. Pick it up and..it stops ringing. *sigh* It was Jenny. Uh-oh! Had she had an accident? broken down? I started to call her back when the main land line phone rings. It's probably Jen, and the phone is by the bed. I scramble back round the bed.
"Hi Mum. Did I leave my work security badge at home? Can you look for me?"
No need for me to look. I knew exactly where it was as I'd spotted it Saturday. So I get dressed and wrap up against the -1 degC out side. Mum to the rescue! (again).
It takes me 5 mins to de-ice the car from the thick frost all over it and I head into Bournemouth. It's only a 20 min drive to her work outside the rush hour so I dropped off her badge and headed back home.
Did I mention the electricity workmen? No? OK when I came to leave the house to take Jen's badge, I found our end of the cul-de-sac chock-a-block with lorries and vans. The electricity people were replacing part of the small sub-station opposite my house. Lovely! They'd left just enough gap for me to drive out of my drive and down the road but 2 more vans were arriving as I left. When I got back home I could not get to my house for all the vans and cars. My neighbour was just off to work and said I could use his drive as he'd be gone all day. I parked on it and walked up the hill to my house. I let Honey out to do her poo and had a pee myself (TMI?) before heading out again. I popped over to John's for a coffee and then we headed out into town for a pub lunch. Good old 'spoons! :) I had a lovely chilli with rice and nachos, and John had a meat feast in the form of a mixed grill. I was scheduled to take Linda to the hospital so had to watch the time. I dropped John home then headed for Linda's. She's only 5 mins down the road from him BUT I had forgotten the roadworks which closed the road between the two! I had to make a 7 mile detour instead of a 2 mile hop :(. I picked up Linda pretty much on time and we headed into Poole and the hospital car park. It looked pretty full but I know they have loads of disabled parking bays so we would be ok. Hmmm - usually yes but today? No! I drove round and round the car park and all the blue badge spaces were taken! So up we went, 2 floors higher to find a space at all. We parked and headed to the lifts. Stood and waited ages. No sign or sound of movement so we went down the stairs. Linda is virtually blind and I need to hold the rails too so she took one side and I took the other rail. We had 4 flights of stairs to descend and made it fine. Then we had the walk through the covered walkway from the car park to the hospital entrance. In through the lower ground entrance, along the corridor to the lifts and up to the second floor for the day patient centre. I deposited Linda and headed back out again. I had to sit on a bench near the entrance for 5 mins as my knees were protesting. But was then able to walk back through the walkway to the car park. I headed for the lifts but by now they had notices on them saying out  of order! *sigh* I plodded back up the 4 flights of stairs and got back to the car nearly in tears with the pain. I was so relieved to sit down and bend my knees. I drove home and got there about 3. I decided if I didn't take Honey walkies then and there I would not make it before it got dark, and I'd not get out with her before |I had to go pick up Linda again. So I called Honey down and she came running and leapt into the car all excited. I put her fleece coat on her and shut her in. She was happy to go out, and when we arrived at Baiter she saw her best mate Lenny, and the pair of them had a rapturous tail wagging session. They had a short chase around with each other but Lenny was on his way home so they could not play for long. Lenny is exactly the same colouring as Honey but he's a fraction smaller and he's a lurcher not a greyhound. He loves Honey and everyone he meets. He's a little sweetheart.
When I got home with Honey, I collapsed in the recliner, got my legs up, and fell asleep! I had about half an hour of bliss then woke up and had trouble moving my legs :( I gave Honey her dinner and had just sat down again when the phone rang. Linda was ready to come home! My heart sank but knew I had to do it. I headed back to the hospital and luckily got a parking space in the small bit by the entrance. So no car park to negotiate, and no walkway :-). Linda was waitng and ready to go so I was soon back on the road taking her home.
All done and home by 6.
Have had a coffee and a nutty chocolate ( Milk Tray) now we are off to the pub. Quiz night! Yayy! Hope we win!