Friday was a very slow start, as I check my cyber litter and messages. Then its on to organising the next Tesco order and getting to grips with putting in place arrangements to go north to see my mentor and friends. I dally so long that just as I clamber out of bed my partner brings me a bacon sandwich. There is post already and amongst it the HMRC letter we were waiting for to move my sisters estate tax moving on. So there is some admin to be done. I have no book to hand so listen to another episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage. My partner goes off to see her physio and I set about Hoovering the house through prior to my youngest daughter, partner and their new young son coming tomorrow. I’m impressed with our version of a Hoover in that I had never found one that was capable of rolling up a pair of nickers on the front roller, but this one achieved this with ease. So after freeing up the roller I continued the run through the house and cleared the kitchen.

By the time I had finished I was ready for another episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage, which kept me amused while I recovered from the house Hoovering. I was beginning to drift when I decided to take my vitals and then change for a short row. I am trying to build up my PAI points and also lay in some resilience to Mondays 28 day injection. Yep, its that time of month again, so I will be checking my paracetamol stock as well. The garage is chilly so I strap in quick to he rower and getting going speedily, again giving it a bit of “vim” and hoping to meet my usual standard. It goes well and I achieve my goals.

I return to the sofa and record my session. I am pleased to find I have accrued 175 PAI points and my fitness age has dropped to 52. So all in all I am quite pleased with this weeks efforts. The rest of my day sinks into evening where I eat tea and then settle down to an evening of TV as I switch off and try to maintain as many spoons as possible in anticipation of tomorrows guests. Ultimately there will be night meds and bed.