Friday and I wake early for no particular reason and I am brought a decaf coffee by my partner who has got up for work. I do my usual routine of checking emails and messages and then get up for toast. A women’s world cup quarter final is on, Sweden v Japan, which Sweden win 2-1 in normal time. While the game is on I refill my drugs wallets for the next two weeks. I cannot add my next chemo cycle until next Tuesday when I will pick them up from the hospital pharmacy. I also mend my partner’s mothers watch as the strap had come adrift. After the match I clear the kitchen, take and record my vitals and get ready to go out to lunch to meet old colleagues including one who is home from Bermuda for a few days. For once it is sunny, so I am hopeful for a pleasant afternoon.

My expectations have been fully met by this afternoons leisurely lunch. As on one of my friends pointed out I was the only English person there, the rest being Italian, Welsh, Argentinian and Nigerian. The lunch took at least four hours to complete, a lovely mixture of good food, company and conversation. My Nigerian friend flies back to Bermuda tomorrow so it was good to have the chance to chat to to him about the future and family before he returns. As always he had stories to tell of his travels which made us laugh. There is too little of this in life. Long lazy meals with friends are real treasures. Of course we argued over issues but that is what lively, bright people do.

I drive home in time for a light tea and chat before doing my vitals and settling down to a quiet evening of Fat and Furious, some digit between 1 and 200. It’s just wallpaper to drafting the blog, taking meds and going to bed. Tomorrow is a big day, England play Colombia in the quarter final of the world cup. The taster before is Australia (hosts) v France so it will be an exhausting morning. It could be a demanding day as there are two rugby league finals and and international rugby match to watch, not to mention the first Match of the Day highlights programme of the first week of the football season. I am hoping that the saturation will see me training again on Sunday.