Monday and I wake up with my partner off to the gym and my eldest daughter off to work so I get up and get into my training gear. I take my morning meds and head for the garage and the rower. I set myself for 45 minutes and get my ear buds in. Todays choice of listening is Elastic Planet, 15 minute long surreal radio comedy. I listen to three of them during the session and I am greatly amused by them so that by the end of the session I am feeling quite uplifted if tired and sweaty. When I check the rowers monitor I find I have rowed my best since restarting to train. 8+ kilometres! I am pleased with me.

Once off the rower I clear the kitchen, make a soup lunch and settle down to watch Rachel Reeves give her first conference speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer, quite impressive and clearly a contender when Starmer falls beneath a weight of free gifts. A shower and then a brief start at drafting the blog so far until its time to go to the GP for my RSV inoculation. It is pouring with rain so its going to be a bit of a flog in the wet.

The jab was a quick in and out and then home with a newspaper. I spend time doing the crosswords adn ease into the evening where I watch TV and then get myself to bed wondering if I am going to get a reaction.