No Football tomorrow ....

It SHOULD be Stocksbridge v Mossley in Unibond Challenge Cup ...it was probably going to be Stalybridge v Woodley in the Cheshire Senior Cup .....or maybe Droylsden's first league win against Burton Albion....

..but that's all gone out of the window following a phone call this evening on my way home which said "On our way to North Manchester General - Peter's jaw is broken in two places" ........................................ (for more info see earlier thread) - strange that the fractured jaw (x2) was not spotted by Tameside General last Friday Night / Saturday morning .....but we'll hold on that one for now.

An "interesting" evening entailed which saw him ending up at Booth Hall where he'll be having an operation tomorrow afternoon - we got home at about 2330 tonight - I only joined Mrs Smiffy & Peter at North Manc at 1845 - they'd started at Tameside today at 1330 !! Such is the beauty of specialisms, different Health Trusts, left hands/right hands - and general privatisation. Duplicate forms were filled in - to ensure they had the correct Health Trust name at the top - a "maxfax" specialist from North Manchester was doing a surgery at Tameside this afternoon - obviously no-one at Ashton seemed to know (that could have cut out one hospital/health trust/set of duplicate forms !!) At 14 years old he could not stay at North Manchester - he's a "child" - yet he was allowed to sign a consent form...

So - don't expect any reports tomorrow night - apparently he's 3rd in the queue for tomorrow afternoon, which kicks off at 1400 - he may be "moved down" if more urgent stuff comes in. Mrs Smiffy takes day off - think I'll pack in work at lunchtime to make the perilous public transport journey to Booth Hall.

Watch this space if you want .........once again my grateful thanks to the 20 year "big bully boy"...