We've spent most of this evening waiting for medical people to look at Bethany who has been rather unwell today. She has not eaten much today and around tea time she started shivering so for Alison's peace of mind we took her to the walk-in centre. They had difficulty doing some checks as Bethany was upset so administered a bit more paracetamol and sent us to the children's day ward at the hospital. This did not allay Ali's fears much but she had picked up a little and after some initial examinations by the staff nurse and junior doctor we were left waiting in the examination room for the senior doctor to take his turn. All the staff we encountered were excellent as you would expect but we must have spent about three hours from arriving at the walk-in clinic to leaving the hospital where they assured us that it was nothing serious but gave us a slip for open access for 48 hours - which basically means if she gets any worse we can go straight back to the ward without involving a GP first. Luckily on getting back to my car I was relieved to see that I had not got a ticket as I did not have enough spare change on me when we arrived for the car park. I did not expect to need any, the machine did not take notes or texts and I was not really in the mood to go hunting for change with a sick baby stripped to her nappy in my arms. I'm sure there is probably somewhere else to park outside the visitors car park in such situations but again I was not going to start searching.
   An equally disturbing thing occurred this afternoon when I was getting my hair cut. Another man was getting his hair cut behind me and I thought nothing of the snippets of conversation that drifted over concerning going down to Blackburn. I assumed he was referring to watching a football match but then he mentioned about people wanting to disrupt the Royal Wedding but he'd be there in front of Buckingham Palace. The barber who had been doing my hair asked if was EDL to his assistant after he'd left which she confirmed but, a little too keenly for my liking, described how he'd talked of marching against a mosque in Blackburn.
   I really don't have the time and inclination do detail why they are so wrong and that is probably for another blog although he did leave with a stereotypical skinhead - mind you I was getting my head shaved as well but suffice to say the Queen can rest easy knowing that some morons are coming down to relieve the pressure from her Guards and they can be guaranteed to do a bang up job of keeping the peace.