The bad news and the good news.

 I had a call last week from Rosie, who works for the Diana Service for Children with Life-limiting Conditions, asking for quilts.  She especially wanted larger quilts, as they are more versatile.  As it happens, Vicki and Ann’s quilting class had just donated two larger quilts, so I gathered them, and some other larger quilts and set off to Tescos in Wigston.  (Linus coordinators get to go to the most exotic places!)

The good news is that Rosie will be retiring next year, and become a lady of leisure like me!  The bad news is that Rosie is retiring next year, so I won’t be meeting up with her again.  After 17 years, it’s a blow.  However, we all thank her for going out of her way to give extra hugs for her patients, and wish her well for the future. 

Another trip to the LRI

 Ward 27 of the LRI needed more quilts.  That is great, although I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the car parking queue again!  This time Jane came along (she drove as she gets car sick when other people drive!).  We decided to set off after the rush hour, but hopefully before the queue builds up, and it worked!  We left at 9am and only had just under 20 minutes in the queue - we managed to have a nice chat so we didn’t mind! 

Here we all are with some of the 50 quilts we took.  It was Jane’s first delivery experience, and she was very touched by how appreciative the staff were, and we even got lovely comments from people in the lift!  A satisfactory couple of hours all round.