Get your reward later

I can't say that I'm looking forward to the rest of the day. Not that I'm looking for sympathy or anything (oh yes you are - Ed) but I leave home just after lunch then I have a three hour drive to Girona, a two hour wait at the airport, a one and a half hour flight and then a two and a half hour drive to Foggia. It wouldn't be so bad if I was going on a holiday but it's in order to bring my mother back from Italy to France. The return journey to be completed two days later. This is not my idea of fun. I don't subscribe to the notion of getting your rewards later.