Thursday and I over sleep, so I have 15 minutes before my morning meeting. Is a coffee and then a wrestling match with my IT to get into a meeting. It seems that the link had been withdrawn and only reestablished as people tried to meet. The meeting was fast as others had to be else where so at the end I chat with a colleague about some work activities and our plans for the weekend and beyond. In the middle of this chat I get a call from the hospital telling me that my lunchtime appointment had been moved to 3:30pm. This meant that I could host my open forum as usual. So at the end of the meeting I check the post and find the jungle bedding that I ordered from Joe Browns had arrived. I have a light lunch and then make my way back to the laptop and host the open forum. They are coming to an end soon and finding a way to the finish is always a time that requires some thought and sensitivity. So having completed the forum I find that my hospital appointment has been pushed back to 4pm. I discover a box of plants in the porch and put them into the greenhouse before I go the hospital. I drive to the hospital and check in at 4pm and get called immediately. Apparently my surgeon was running his clinic in London and over ran and then had a pig of a journey back to Leicester. He very efficiently cuts his blue stitching and takes them out in no time at all. He instructs me on scar maturing. I am to massage my scar with any cream around twice a day to soften the scar as it matures. He suggested that this could be done whilst watching TV, so plenty of opportunity for me then. Now I just have to enhance my scar with an appropriate eye patch and a parrot and wait for “talk like a pirate” day comes round again.

I get to home and sort out some plant pots for the new plants and get them tucked up in warm compost and tuck them up for the night in the greenhouse. This is a another attempt on my behalf to grow a blue poppy. I’ve been trying now for several years but without luck, the dream is to have a garden in spring full of blue poppies. During this a friend calls to see how I am after my de-stitching and to talk about half term and the latest sewing projects underway.

Tea is Thursday tuna pasta whilst watching the Canadian ice hockey team beat the Russians in overtime,which was a bit of a surprise given the Canadians lost their first three matches. So now they go into the semi finals on Saturday. Having got that excitement out of the it was time for my partner to have her weekly singing lesson and me to get into the front garden and give the garden chair its second application of Teak oil. I settle down to watch TV and then write the blog. Tomorrow with luck and a following wind my partner and I will take a trip out to Matlock Bath, so we might even get eat out amongst other carbon based units.