Diary Sunday 5th June 2016

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I stayed over with my friends in Rochdale on Saturday night and after we got up I chatted with them until lunchtime today before leaving to head for home. I am very grateful to my friends for their wonderful hospitality. Back home, I was concerned for my Mum given that despite her heart condition, my sister had thrown a quite lavish 30th birthday party for the girlfriend of one of her sons. I was saddened to find some of the guests had returned to carry on the party, with lots of their food and drink still around. I was not invited to participate or eat any of it and none of the guests even said hello to me. My mum being diabetic could not enjoy much of the very rich buffet of cakes and savouries laid out round her and being totally unwelcome – a gate-crasher in my own house, I ended up making tinned soup for myself despite a veritable banquet on the tables. Most of the party rubbish had been thrown in the wrong recycling bins too. That could get my mother fined. My mum looked tired and she had received one big scare from a bursting party balloon, of a kind that really shouldn’t have been put up given her sensitive condition. My Mum slipped away to bed about ten pm, and the last of my sister’s guests left at midnight taking most of the food with them. The photo here is of Rochdale Town Hall Arthur Chappell