The Hero

 Down at the Loco Works, outside the office stands a plant pot filled with flowers.  All the summer flowers have died back now and the spring bulbs are beginning to show their green shoots.

Grandma bought some pretty plants, just to brighten it up a bit.

Grandma and her grandson went down to the Loco works with the plants and planted and watered the pretty plantpot, it did look cheerful in the grey overcast daylight.

Grandma and grandson then went round the 'yard' looking at all the engines, even 6320 - Duchess of Sutherland - was parked up so that she could be viewed from all sides. . . . . 

Then it was time to go home, perhaps stop in the village and buy some lunch.  They trundled up the hill to the bus stop and then had to wait a very long time for the bus to come.  They chatted and played guessing games.

When they arrived in the village, they had just missed the bus that takes them to Grandma's house so they decided to have lunch.  They visited a café which they hadn't been in before so it was quite an adventure, they checked the Menu and decided they would have Fish and Chips!!!

After they had eaten lunch, they crossed the road to wait for the bus.  While they were waiting, Grandma sat on the seat and the grandson looked in the shop windows and they both played guessing games again.  

Suddenly Grandma didn't feel very well so she asked her grandson to come and sit with her for a while.  She didn't get any better and, if truth be told, she felt worse.  

"Do you remember how to use my phone?" asked Grandma

"Not really" said the grandson

"Ok", said Grandma, "I'll tell you what to do".

So she told him how to telephone his Auntie, who wondered what was wanted.  He told her his Grandma was not very well and whereabouts they were.

Auntie arrived, decided Grandma was definitely ill and needed an ambulance.  She then phoned her sister to tell her to come and collect the Hero.

Mommy came and took the Hero, for that is what the grandson was, to Daddy and Mommy went back to be with Auntie and Grandma.  The Hero and Daddy waited until Mommy came back home to find out what had happened to Grandma.

Grandma was taken to the hospital but had to wait outside for four hours because no-one is allowed in because of Covid.  The ambulance man and lady were amazing, they told her stories, jokes, made sure she had food and drink, then came and checked up she was ok when she had been taken inside to a ward.

Inside the hospital, all the usual tests were carried out and it was decided Grandma's dicky heart had become a tricky, dicky heart and she must stay in for some tests.

Grandma was in hospital for three days and met lots of interesting people, also some very ill people, some confused people who went to sleep in one place and woke in another, and some very selfish people who wanted to be waited on all the time.

When she came home, she told her grandson all about what had happened and how he would always be her Hero . . . . for ever . . . . and ever.

She loves her Hero very much.