Sunday and I wake up after a reasonable night’s sleep and importantly no headache. My partner has a cold so I am up making warm drinks and Lemsip. We spend time lazing before I take my vitals, which are okay. I get up and clear the kitchen and then have breakfast and my basic morning meds. Because I know I have limited energy I set to and prepare tonight’s meal and get it into the crock pot and set it cooking.

By the time I have done this I am already tired. I resort to laying on the recliner and listening to Mark Steels in Town until there is sport to watch on the TV. That is where I stay until the evening meal. My evening is all TV. I know this sounds appallingly sloth like and couch potato but this is a day of fatigue when my energy for activity ran out very early. Of course I do odd chores of life admin and follow the football results. There are occasional messages and emails to respond to but mostly I do my best to rest. My hope is to return to the rower tomorrow as my burst of energy.

At the end of the day I hold my nerve and keep to my basic meds and night time routines. In 7 days time I will have been writing this blog for 5 years, so I have started to think about how I might make the blog for that day special, perhaps I can write a poem or a collection of favourite books or images over the time. I am open to suggestions.