Sam

We spent the next few days taking mum to visit Sam it must have been the hottest week of the year and the hospital only had one fan in the ward oh the difficulties of the N.H.S. On the Wednesday Avril had arranged for us all to go to the lake district to stay at Tock-How Farm a cottage that once belonged to Beatrix Potter it was a very welcome break. Thursday a trip on the Gondola at Lake Coniston followed by afternoon tea at Rothay Manor Ambleside and we couldn't leave the lakes without going to Workington for some Haighs pies. Mum phoned that evening to say that Sam had sadly died so it was back to Nottingham first thing Friday morning.