Friday and I wake up to the fifth anniversary of my Civil Partnership. My partner is at work in the office down stairs so I take my time doing my vitals, checking my socials and messages before getting up. I take my morning meds. Despite a long train yesterday I decide to train again today and so get into my kit and head for the garage adn my rowing machine. I’ve never named the rower as it seems like an intrusion, the relationship we have is very business like, me getting fir and the machine a professional trainer. I set myself up for a thirty minute session and get going as soon as possible. it goes reasonably well despite it feeling a tough session. By the end I have rowed 6 kilometre plus so that will do. The aim must be to up the level of resistance and be able to row the same distance.

I record the session and have a light breakfast before taking a shower and resting. Both the training and the showering use a lot of energy spoons so I need a brief beak to recover. So while resting I start to draft the blog until my partner finishes work at lunch time. We drive to a garden centre some way away and indulge in a good lunch, including my treat of posh cheese on toast. Its an opportunity to talk about retirement and plans for things that need doing. Surrounding the restaurant there are a lot of craft adn art shops so once having eaten we go to look for a spare diffuser as we bought our last one from here. Not only did we find the right replacement diffuser we also found wheat and lavender pillows to ease us to sleep. Of course there was no avoiding the delicatessen, where we picked up pasties, French biscuits and real liquorice swirls. Then it was home wards.

I settled to draft the blog and to while away the time listening to more Mindfulness Mixes on the smart speaker. The builder badger, only one today, had gone by the time I returned. He had cracked on despite being on his own and has nearly completed the block paving in the sideway. There are only the fiddly bits that need blocks to be cut and then the whole thing sand filled and it will be finished. Providing his fellow builder badger is well on Monday this part of the job may well be finished and the bin stand at the front begun.

Rather than the recently usual sport or TV evening tonight it is to be a meal in a favourite restaurant to celebrate five years of civil partnership. I shall indulge and I may even allow myself to indulge in a glass (large of course) of a rich red wine to wash down the undoubted plate of meat that I shall have, having told the waitress/waiter to hold the vegetables. This place does the most amazing crepes with oranges and grand manier source. I am so looking forward to it. Its the indulgence that I like the whole panoply of flavours and variety of textures that are conjured up with no cooking or washing up required. I no doubt will arrive back home down my night meds and go to bed in a warm and sated, not to mention slightly pissed state. Tomorrow can look after itself although I need to pop into the dentist to see if they will give me a mouth map of my crowns, but that is for another day.