Today, I feel as if I have spent most of the time in the car. 250 miles of it! This morning I took Miles to RKade skate park and he had a really good session with his friends. As soon as I got back Fiona and I went to see her mum at the new Residential Home she is at in Barrow in Furness because her vascular dementia has deteriorated. I was slightly apprehensive about going because she was so happy in her old home but once I got there, after I found the flaming place, it was a really good establishment. Veronica was in a medium-size room with several other residents and they had been listening to a music video. She really glowed when she saw us and as I helped her over to the corner of the room where we arranged the chairs to show her photographs and have a good chat, Fiona and I introduced ourselves to all the ladies in the room. They were very nice people. As usual Veronica really enjoyed the photographs and it was a good discussion and focal point and she asked several questions. I found the whole experience in this new establishment a bit emotional but also paradoxically quite beautiful as well because she is in good hands it is a well-run place with kind workers the sort of place I would be happy to end up in! Particularly with all those ladies! Anyway, we never took the boys today because we did not know how much room there would be and it was a bit pinched but they will be coming next time or a least one of them. I am sincerely glad that she is in good hands. The journey there and back was tricky because there was an awful lot of fog which disappeared completely as we climbed up to the Stainmore pass, like a summer's day up there, and then reappeared again in the Eden Valley but a bit thinner. It was the same going back and the fog seemed to have thickened in the Vale of York. I was very careful to make sure I kept everything together when driving as well as being aware of other people because it is easy to run into somebody in fog and to be run into but all the drivers were behaving very sensibly. A very beautiful afternoon out which could correspond to duty but was in actual fact a real pleasure. God bless Veronica.