An ordinary day for my hair to start falling out.

An ordinary Saturday, apart from the Rugby World Cup starting at the crack of dawn on TV, to notice that the hair on my head is beginning to shed like my beard. I though that having had it cut down to 2 millimetres all over I might get away with it but I guess no one told my follicles what the plan was. More delusional stuff from me and another reminder that cancer does what cancer does and chemotherapy does what chemotherapy does.

So today I sat and watched grown men play rugby at a speed and ferocity that is wonderous to behold. As a player long ago it is inspiring to see the levels that the game has reached and the athleticism that is required by the modern game. As fate would have it my new bamboo gym wear arrived at half time. It is one of my resolutions to train more often but in the comfort of light weight kit which helps cope with the hot flushes. By the time New Zealand had out played South Africa I had ordered additional light weight underwear to go with my new kit. Bright red of course, if I’m going to flog myself in the gym then I want to be easy to find as I fly off the end of the cross trainer or get pinned under an over ambitiously loaded weights bar.

Apart from new underwear I retreated to write letters to friends in the shed. I like the intimacy of letters and I like to receive them. There is something about the joy of receiving something that someone has sat down to and thought about, wanted to share and taken the trouble of putting pen to paper. Its something to savour, to drink coffee by and to nibble thoughtfully on a chocolate digestive. Its even better if this can be done in the shed in the garden to the sound of birds and insects going about their business. It also fills the time it takes for the washing to get done or for it to dry on the line.

So not an exciting day but a quiet one of some doing the ordinary. However I like the ordinary, someone once said that the generative power of the everyday should not be under rated or ignored. I agree with this. There is much in the mundane that is extraordinary, I just have to pay attention properly.

I’ve spent part of today trying to learn how to put audio and video into my blog but to date I have failed. I came close once or twice but could not get it to function reliably. I shall preserver but for now enjoy the link below, its one of my all time favourites.

https://binged.it/2OdJRI7

Tomorrow I might have blood tests to share and the joys of being visited by one of my nephews and his family, I’m really looking forward to it, drinks and chocolate cake all round.

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