all tacked up

but nowhere to go...

not strictly true, but i'd no sooner got him tacked up than phone rang with the news that my mother had been taken to hospital....

some time on phone later untacked him & turned out again, and went off to seek said mother who had refused to stay in hospital and been taken home by taxi

can't say i'm overjoyed by that - she should have been kept in, really - but when i got to hers she was reasonably ok...