Tuesday and I start the day with my usual waking routine and the taking of my vitals. While my partner gets breakfast and continues to shift the data from her old phone to the new one I take my morning meds and get ready to go car hunting. Late morning we drive off to the Jeep supplier in Leicester. I’ve been fancying a Jeep for ages and I am eager to be looking them over. We get to the dealership and I am in and sitting in them like a rat up a drain pipe. The outcome is that I am hugely disappointed, they are neither higher nor more impressive than I hoped for. No matter how often I sit them and play with all the toys I feel no joy and have to admit that my fantasy is just that and that I will never own a Jeep.

I drive my partner to one of our favourite garden centres for lunch, where we find that they have started their Christmas menu, so I could not resist the turkey and stuffing panini accompanied by mulled non alcohol wine. It was delicious and could not resist taking a photo of it.

Once home I am on recycling duty and get the bins out before getting to work on replacing the door seal on the cooker. To my chagrin I find that it is the door latch that is faulty. So I clean the existing seal and then order a new door latch and door pin. An unexpected project for when I return from my brief break away. By the time I’ve cleared my tools away, done the days crosswords its time for tea and an evening of TV. I get to night meds time and draft the blog. Its been an active day of mixed success, tomorrow is the start of the brief Spa break.