Tuesday 30th Apr

Today turned out to be busier than expected. After feeding the family, tidying up and waving them all of out the door, I’m off walking to the library. It’s a nice morning and a pleasant walk. Tuesday is often quieter than Thursday as far as IT queries are concerned, but today the queries tick over nicely. In addition I learn how to use the all singing all dancing printer/scanner/copier after much pressing of buttons and scratching of my head. At least I learnt how to do one thing on it; but do remember Rome wasn’t built in a day.

I walk home a different way for a change, coming back over the field, and it’s a joy. If you don’t take advantage of these opportunities they pass you by too easily. A quick lunch, collect my mum and we’re off on the hospital visiting run to visit the ailing one. Still no change, he looks well, he’s just waiting for a surgeon to tell him when they’re going to operate. The waiting and not knowing is always the hardest to deal with.

Then it’s back home to make the eldest a post-school cup of tea and get the youngest to hold the step ladder while I stand on the top of it (I know you shouldn’t but ...) to prune our birch tree. I wanted to get it done before the catkins all fall off and I have to spend a lot of time sweeping them up. It’s unusual and frankly quite surprising, for me to be on the front foot with this sort of thing.

Mrs P comes in and we go out for tea, which makes a nice change. The eldest drives as we go to a nice local Italian, as Mrs P says it makes a change from the usual chain restaurants. The teenagers mobile devices thankfully appear only momentarily. We manage to finish Mrs P’s lunchtime crossword, have a sociable family time, and for once I don’t overeat.

Yours feeling content

Jay