2 Hour Break

Rhiannon's arm wasn't much better this morning, so I drove her to hospital in Greerton to get it checked out. We wanted to avoid all the Saturday morning rugby injuries that we suspected would start piling up if we left it too late. We were seen very quickly by the triage nurse and then endured various waits while other nurses and doctors probed and prodded and X-rayed. Fortunately the hospital does not have to wait a week like the dentist for X-rays. The X-ray was inconclusive - there was a "blood effusion" into the elbow joint consistent with a fracture, but they couldn't see anything. We were advised that an appointment with the fracture clinic would be arranged next week for another X-ray which would hopefully shed a little more radiation on the matter.

Overall we were there a couple of hours or so. An interesting assortment of people turned up while we were there - a fat Maori woman with her son who was "coughing up blood", the bloke who had been bitten by a dog while trying to eject it from his garden, a whole family of emotional Indians wailing over some one's cling film wrapped foot, a freshly wounded cyclist and an an assortment of other minor ailments.

Later we walked along the beach into the Mount. The kids were fascinated by the millions of mussels/cockles sticking out of the sand and were pulling them out and squeezing them together before they could retract their "tongues". Freya found a dead starfish and several dead anemones. A little further on, Freya managed to stub her toe quite badly and pulled all the skin off. Fortunately a neighbouring householder provided a bag of ice and some plasters. The mount is quite a small place really, and it's not really a surprise that we managed to bump into Vicky and Wayne. We wandered back to theirs for a while, supped a beer or two and then nipped back home since Di and Vicky were supposed to be out on the last with Caroline.

Unfortunately by the time both the girls were dressed to kill, Caroline had cancelled. It seemed a shame to waste the faces so I dropped both of them in town and picked them up again somewhat more lubricated.