Thursday and its a relatively early start as my partner is taking her brother to see their mother and to do some business. So after scrambled eggs, coffee adn drugs I wave her off and then find myself trapped by the jigsaw. The family do a big jigsaw every Christmas, it has become a tradition and it also means it solves a present conundrum. I beaver away at the jigsaw and I am joined by my eldest daughter for a while. We get so far and leave it for my partner to finish as is the tradition. When she returns home she does indeed complete the picture.

On realising how long I had idled away over the jigsaw I get changed into my training kit and head for the garage. I meet my daughter and we decide to erect her Christmas present which is a piece of gym equipment. It like a giant 3D jigsaw. I grab my socket set and get going. First of course there was checking that we had all the bits, not an easy task as matching the pieces with the illustrations provided. It takes a while as we adjust the flooring to an even surface and start to build. It goes slowly as we check and double check each step carefully ensuring we are using the right fixings first time. Eventually we finish the job and the pull frame is complete and in its new position. So we now have everything in the garage that will allow us all to train properly at home.

Having completed the building task and cleared away all the recyclable packaging I train for half an hour on the rower. Its a reasonable first session back on the rower and is a suitable easing back session.

The evening follows with the last of the festive football, writing the blog and beginning to research poetry competitions and how to enter them. There are a couple with dead lines coming up. I found them via the Poetry Review which I now get as a member of the poetry society. So this is my new project, which I shall take at a measured pace. In the meantime drugs, sleep, train, focus. I need Shed time.