Outback distances and a very good pharmacist

The weather is a genuine planning input. Twice this winter I could not have got anywhere if I had needed to.

I asked whether things could be delivered and the answer was yes, which nobody had ever mentioned in three years.

Thank you for writing this down. It helped.

Coming back at two years to say the system has held, that the buffer has been used twice, and that the telephone reviews were the thing that made it possible.

Four hours to a prescriber each way means an appointment costs me a day, and every arrangement I have made is built around that fact.

The one thing I would not compromise on is the buffer. Everything else in my arrangement has flexed and that has not.

My prescriber has never seen me in person and it has worked perfectly well for two years, which surprised both of us.

The ferry timetable is the calendar. Everything else in my planning bends around it and I have stopped fighting that.

Reading Leni, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Something practical: my cool bag lives in the car permanently, because I am never less than an hour from home.

I found that being organised was not optional here, whereas in a city I could have improvised.

What helped was consolidating everything to one day a month, so that the journey does four things rather than one.

That is a kinder way of putting it than I have managed about myself.

Something I got right was building a relationship with the pharmacy team. They now flag things to me before they become problems.