weather foils travel plans

Today we were fixed for a long walk in the mountains to find a remote standing stone, but this morning the skies were heavily overcast and it was raining fitfully in very humid conditions. We are both equipped with wet weather gear since our holiday in the Lake District demanded we be suitably equipped. But to be truthful we didn't really feel like it.

So I did a 20 minute juggling practice session instead and followed that with a mini-workout with my hand weights, before getting on with my reading, while meanwhile my wife went shopping.

Then my mum rang to say she had fainted and was now terribly dizzy following a doubtless manic session of tidying prior to the expected visit of a favourite niece. My first instinct on hearing a report like this, which I do quite often, is to say something like:
"Look mum, if you can't hack it by yourself you'll have to go and live in an old people's home"
But I forbore from this rather unsympathetic, if realistic comment. Instead I told her to take a stemetil (a powerful anti nausea drug which she has in the house) and go and lie down for a couple of hours. And indeed, a couple of hours later she rang again to say she was now feeling fine and was about to drive to the local Sainsbos for some supplies. What a wind-up!