Get Up, Sit Down, Sit Down for your Rights.

6 buses 3 appointments 2 hospitals and a partridge in a pear tree. I left Ealing on my second bus of the day at 10 to get to my hospital appointment in Finchley at 11:40 which given the predicted 42 minute journey should have been easy. Bad news 11:50 I finally arrived at Finchley. Good news the hospital had cancelled whilst I was en route. But appointments s 2 and 3 in Barnet were dependent on that 1st appointment. I regrouped in a cafe planning to call Barnet hospital but efficiently they rang me and offered to fit me in at Barnet prior to my other two appointments. Yippee. Leapt on bus number 3 only for the driver to refuse my bus pass. Determined I went and sat down and I thought he had given in when he resumed the journey. However next stop the inspector he had called to sort me out got on. Some negotiations later I was allowed to resume my journey having explained that my bus pass never works in London and I had discussed it with both London transport and the issuer but no one had resolved the matter. Luckily I just about got to Barnet in time had my new 1st appointment then my 2nd and then went up for my third. This was the only appointment that I hadn't had a reminder for or a letter about as it had been organised over the phone but I presented myself confidently only to be told the appointment was in Enfield! Had I known this earlier I could have got there, but I have no record at all that the appointment was for a third hospital!. Three buses later luckily all unchallenged I got home! Strange day and I will have to over this all over again at some point both for my 3rd appointment and the two follow ups hopefully after that I will be liberated but having several hospitals in a group practice all a couple of hours away is always going to be a bit of an issue. Get Up Stand Up the musical, which I saw over the weekend, was a lovely introduction to Bob Marley's life and the reinterpretation of his music really brought out the significance of the words, but whilst what was going on on stage was very entertaining, I was also amused and puzzled by the presence of so many ushers up in the Gods, very actively policing at times, missing the person climbing over seats though to get to the loo and missing the camera work taking place a floor down in the upper circle.