Saturday and I wake up early and make drinks for myself and partner. I read for a while as my partner snoozes. We chat for a while and then I get up and go to the chemists to collect my monthly drugs haul. I put my prescription in on last Sunday and still the chemists have not got all my meds. I come away with just my injection which is due this Friday. the chemist is increasingly under pressure as the new housing estates in the village are placing a bigger demand on the villages infrastructure and services. I return home with a paper and bacon.
My first job is to fill my drugs wallets for the next two weeks. I find I have enough so drugs to do this and soon I am fully loaded for the fortnight to come. There are bacon sandwiches and coffee for breakfast along with some interesting mail. I am pleased to find a letter from a friend in Scotland and put it to one side so that I can give it the time and attention that it deserves. There is also a small box containing fresh pod weed and a larger parcel that yields up my new ice hockey jersey. I wasn’t going to buy anymore ice hockey jerseys but I could not resist an English one for about £20. It puts Milton Keynes into my collection.
First job is to get the pond weed into the pond so I go into the garden and drop it into the pond. While I am there I cut back last years growth on the ferns so that the new growth is freed up. I stake a shrub that has collapsed and then re-net then pond. Back in the house I make another coffee and sit and read my new letter. As always it is full of interesting news, observations adn thoughts. I am not feeling at my best but get ready to go to the garden centre to shop for fruit and veg.
My partner drives us to the garden centre and we shop for our fruit and veg. I’m not feeling particularly good so when we return to shop at the butchers I wait in the car. We return home and I head for the sofa to rest and watch the women’s international rugby match, which leads me onto the FA cup semi final.
An evening of food and Murder in the First, night meds and bed past midnight hoping to be tired enough to sleep deep and peacefully.
