"But you'd like to see discount ugg boots it. You'd like to see this boat, wouldn't you, Ruth?"
     "I suppose so. I suppose I would. You spend day after day in this place. Yeah, it'd be good to see something like that."
     "And do you suppose"--I said this gently, without a hint of sarcasm--"if we're driving all that way, we should think about calling in on Tommy? Seeing his centre's just down the road from where this boat's meant to be?"
     Ruth's face didn't show anything at first. "I suppose we could think about it," she said. Then she laughed and added: "Honest, Kathy, that wasn't the only reason discount ugg boots I've been going on about the boat. I do want to see it, for its own sake. All this time in and out of hospital. Then cooped up here. Things like that matter more than they once did. But all right, I did know. I knew Tommy was at the Kingsfield centre."
     "Are you sure you want to see him?"
     "Yes," she said, no hesitation, looking straight at me. "Yes, I do." Then she said quietly: "I haven't seen that boy for a long time. Not since the Cottages."
     Then, at last, we talked about Tommy. discount ugg boots We didn't go into things in a big way and I didn't learn much I didn't know already. But I think we both felt better we'd finally brought him up. Ruth told me how, by the time she left the Cottages the autumn after me, she and Tommy had more or less drifted apart.
     "Since we were going different places to do our training anyway," she said, "it didn't seem worth it, to split up properly. So we just stayed together until I left."
     And at that stage, we didn't say much more about it buy cheap uggs online than that.
     As for the trip out to see the boat, I neither agreed nor disagreed to it, that first time we discussed it. But over the next couple of weeks, Ruth kept bringing it up, and our plans somehow grew firmer, until in the end, I sent a message to Tommy's carer through a contact, saying that unless we heard from Tommy telling us not to, we'd show up at the Kingsfield on a particular afternoon the following week.
     Chapter 19
     I'd hardly ever been to the Kingsfield in those days, so Ruth and I ugg boots for girls had to consult the map a number of times on the way and we still arrived several minutes late. It's not very well-appointed as recovery centres go, and if it wasn't for the associations it now has for me, it's not somewhere I'd look forward to visiting. It's out of the way and awkward to get to, and yet when you're there, there's no real sense of peace and quiet. You can always hear traffic on the big roads beyond the fencing, and there's a general feeling they never properly finished converting the ugg boots australia place. A lot of the donors' rooms you can't get to with a wheelchair, or else they're too stuffy or too draughty. There aren't nearly enough bathrooms and the ones there are are hard to keep clean, get freezing in winter and are generally too far from the donors' rooms. The Kingsfield, in other words, falls way short of a place like Ruth's centre in Dover, with its gleaming tiles and double-glazed windows that seal at the twist of a handle.