Saturday: a lazy start, breakfast, meds and then my partner and I go to the garden centre to buy vegetables to see us through the week and come away with a beach shelter and a new kettle. We return home to an early lunch.

Of course there is Commonwealth Games action to watch, our boys in the beach volleyball seems surreal. I change to go and train in the garage. It is my last session of the week before the Sunday weigh in. I go for an hour at my standard resistance. In setting up the rower I realise that yesterdays session was done on a lower resistance. So today is a real test. It goes reasonably well given I am coming back from a period of inactivity and illness.

I get my kit off, get a drink, put my washing in and find I have two packages to open. I settle down and open my new book arrivals. I am extremely fortunate as I have friends who feed me books, either as presents or recommendations. This keeps me engaged and continually puts new things in front of me to think about. My two new thought provokers are Tove Jansson’s Moominland Midwinter and David Robinson’s The Expectation Effect.

It would appear I am well provided for to survive the end of the Commonwealth Games. I have a growing pile of books that I can read in those waiting moments, like waiting for the MOTs to be done next week. When I check my messages I find an extraordinary YouTube clip sent by a friend to a group of us who occasionally meet to eat together. If you have the time just sit back and enjoy it

Isn’t that just fabulous. I start to draft the blog and move towards evening when I continue to be addicted to the Commonwealth Games but think I shall also read. Of course today is the start of the football season so there will be Match of the Day to enjoy, I can hear the groans already.