Lockdown Diary - New Year's Eve (Thursday 31st December 2020)
Last night I decided that I would have a lie-in until 8 a.m. today: I'd even gone to the trouble of asking the temporary first carer of the day to let herself in. Of course this was a fatal mistake. When I came downstairs I noticed the door to my wife's 'bedroom' (not sure why I've put that in quotes: it IS her bedroom though it WAS once our dining room/library) is closed and from behind the door I hear a regular bleeping sound. I recognise the bleeping. It is the sound of the feeding pump indicating it is not happy. In I trot to take a look and see that the display says, 'Feed Empty'. One look shows this is not actually the case. On closer inspection I can see the problem. The 'giving set' - which is what the pipework is known as, has air in it. It looks to me as if it's not been primed properly - 'priming' being the, theoretically, automatic process whereby the pump pushes feed to the end of the tube and pushes the air out, ready to ...