Terrafirma Travels

Bit of a lie in for once, nice cooked breakfast at 0830. Static morning with L finalising and submitting pamphlet and N following up actions and emails from yesterday, and catching up with this blog.

N had all day mtg in the Spine Building next door to hotel, on the subject of a new organisation to provide a professional 'home' for all HCPs working in the field of bone health. N was one of two invited patient advocates in a room of clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, physios and relevant organisations including ROS. A most stimulating day. L worked on a pamphlet she and Stephen want to publish, then took a bus into the city centre and visited an art gallery. At 5pm we drove, v slowly through the Liverpool traffic, up towards Preston. Stopped at a random restaurant near Bamber Bridge which turned out to be lovely. N could not finish his pasta; was it the large soup starter, or leftover adrenaline from the day?! Got to Claremont Hotel in Ashton-upon-Ribble (it's Preston really) in time to watch Serena Williams not quite make her comeback at 44 after 4 years off - what was she thinking? This was after we retuned the TV. The WiFi is also a struggle as we're in the furthest...

N had an online strategy call with ROS, then we left at 11 for much motorway. V sticky through Birmingham as usual. Arrived Novotel Paddington in Liverpool at 1530, chucked bags in room, drove to Sefton Park where L spent her first year or so.  We viewed 17 Ivanhoe Rd and then walked in the Park where no doubt little L was pushed in her pram. Had a cuppa and just got into the wonderful Palm House before it closed.  Tried to drive across Liverpool to a cinema to see the NT Liaison Dangereux but the traffic started as terrible and became gridlocked. L bailed out, good decision, back to hotel where we ate in and watched Djokavic scrape a first round win at Wimbledon.