Tuesday 21st May

I swear summer is just around the corner, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it as I walk down to the library on a cool overcast day. It’s a quiet morning which lets me clear my email and wade through the ever increasing number of offers I get these days. It’s almost a source of pride these days when you actually pay full price for something. There was a nice old gent who came to speak to me this morning, to tell me he was going to be getting a computer. It took him twenty minutes to tell me, but he was a nice man and sometimes you just need to sit back and enjoy these experiences.

I wander back home at lunch time to make lunch for me and the eldest who is now on study leave. It’s nice to have her home to eat with, but she does subject me to a poor TV show, which is the quid pro quo for her company. After tidying up I get out my bicycle to ride to Mrs P’s GP to order a repeat prescription. Before I’ve got very far on the bike, my legs are aching. I really am out of practice on the bike, and must get out more. The GP’s has moved into a local hospital’s grounds, which means I have to search to find it. I eventually find the GP’s surgery on the second floor of the new hospital building. It feels soulless, not at all like a traditional welcoming GP’s practice. More like a corporate version of what’s best for you. Is that progress?

After doing the ironing and making tea, I partake of what is now becoming a regular evening perambulation with Mrs P. To round off the day I print off a couple of driving test routes and the eldest takes me out, and whilst I shout out the directions she drives round the route. An interesting experience, and if she could avoid hitting kerbs it could be a pleasant one.

Yours slightly traumatised.

Jay