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I'm now back from my mother's. I had gone there last night in order to drive her to her hospital appointment this morning. The appointment went well, which is good, but last night was extremely annoying.

She has been a bit wobbly on her feet which has meant she has been rather wary about climbing the stairs. She has been calling out the alert people which has annoyed the social work department as they say that is not what the alert button thingy is for. It would seem that they would prefer the alert button to be used only when she has actually fallen down the stairs and is lying at the bottom. However, it has meant that a social worker has come out, carried out an assessment, and my mother will be getting the night time service which will ensure she is up the stairs and in her bed each night. To that end we now have a new flat screen telly she can watch in her bedroom.

The service hasn't yet started so last night I could not go to bed until my mother was upstairs. This took most of "Gladiator" to achieve. "Gladiator" came on at 11. I began watching it as she had gone off to the bathroom to get ready and I really enjoy the battle scenes in Germania. At some point I fell asleep in the armchair, having been up since 6.00am. I woke up, Marcus Aurelius had just died and Commodus was now emperor and still she wasn't ready. Time passed, Maximus became a gladiator, went to Rome, and still she wasn't ready. Eventually she came into the living room, sat down and tried to change the TV channel because "you don't want to watch this, do you?". She stopped when I pointed out it was one of my favourite films and there wasn't a lot else on. Then there was a lot of faffing about, looking at her diary, going through her bag, picking up papers, making sure her shoes were where they should be, and general faffing about. By this time Commodus had discovered that Maximus was the gladiator he had been watching in the arena.

I eventually managed to get her out of the living room just after Maximus gets back in contact with his legion. I had switched off the kitchen light so as to not encourage her to go into that room but nevertheless she went there and began looking in the fridge (absolutely no idea why). By this time I just wanted to yell at her to "get up the bloody stairs NOW!" and if it had been anyone else I would have done so but I'm new to this whole parent/child role reversal thing so I just punched the wall a few times. The last straw was when she came out of the kitchen and asked me to fill the kettle. When I said that it didn't need to be done right this minute she said she would do it. At this point I lost it and yelled at her to get up the stairs and I would fill the kettle. She went up the stairs, I filled the kettle (with much annoyed banging about).

I eventually got into my bed at 1.45am.
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