Tuesday and I wake to find my partner gone to see her mother with her bother. I take my vitals and they are good. I read my emails and messages and do a bit more Christmas organising. When I finally get up I dress for a proper day and make myself breakfast. I then up date my blood pressure and vitals spread sheet and calculate the average blood pressure for the Sticky Wicket period so far. To date my average blood pressure of this time is 126/75, slap bang normal for me. My SATS, heartrate and temperature are also normal for me. So some things in my body are holding up. I do a few odd chores like recycling the cardboard boxes that are laying around. Its then that I realise I have a headache, My partner returns and I go out into the garden to refill the bird and squirrel feeders and return to the house to take paracetamol.

I relax for a while letting the sun warm me as the paracetamol takes effect and I rest. Amazon delivers my new poetry book or at least a book of poetry from a new poet that I have discovered. I noticed in a TV drama about Israelis hunting terrorists that one of the terrorists was reading a book by Mahmoud Darwish and wondered if this was real and part of the characterisation of the person in the drama. Just like I discovered Jim Harrison from a clip of Roadhouse. I found that Mahmoud was, and still is, a famous Palestinian poet and write so I looked on Amazon and found a book of his poetry, “If I were another”. That is what arrived mid afternoon and I have been reading it ever since. Once again I find an incredible poet, who says things in a way I never could. His poetry is just brilliant, I bet it is even better in the original Arabic.

I take a short break to go the post office to get a paper and supplies before returning to do the days cross words and read more of Darwish’s poetry. During this time I organise a phone call with a friend this evening before starting to draft the blog. The evening arrives so soon it will time to eat before my phone call and if I am lucky a football match. As always my intention is an early night after my meds, more important today as I intend to take my partner into town to buy her birthday present. I hope all goes well tonight.