It’s Wednesday which means the bins go out, I have breakfast and head for the shed to write letters. But not before I get a call from a friend and the opportunity to talk to someone who is out there in the world balancing work and family pre vaccination. There I sit and watch my garden and write to friends. Soon it will be possible to entertain again and to visit and this is reflected in my letters. At lunch time I realise that I am still sore from Mondays injection and that I have stopped taking pain killers. I decide to persist without the pain killers, I judge the discomfort is manageable. A bacon bagel lunch and I clear the kitchen and then post my letters, I note I am low on stamps. I prepare the curry for the evening meal and pop it in the oven on a low heat to slowly come to completion in the early evening. I settle into the sofa for my afternoon work meeting. The meeting is an interesting one and I am drawn into a complex discussion on how it is possible to create inclusion across all levels of an organisation. I come away from the meeting with a lot of thoughts about how COVID has created widening of gaps in organisations.By the time I have finished the guy who tidies our garden had arrived so I was out chatting to him and feeding him tea. It is soon curry time and we sit and plan our evening. Easy for me I am going to watch a football match, which I do and then write the blog. I am acutely aware that I have not trained and I am seriously considering a late night row.