Saturday and I wake up after a good nights sleep. I think my late night processing my latest blood results is perhaps the reason I have slept so well. My partner goes off to have her done and I take a walk to the village chemist. My partners prescription is there but mine is not, so I shall fall back on a spare injection that I have squirrelled away. On my return home I do the days crosswords and have breakfast.

My partner and eldest daughter go to the local shopping park and I watch a football match, when at half time I change into my training gear. ]The game ends adn I head for the garage and the rower. I had intended just to do a gentle 30 minutes but once strapped in I go for 45 minutes a the basis that I will rest on Sunday before my jab on Monday. It goes quite well as once again I do more than 7 kilometres and burn more than 500 calories.

A friend sends me a picture of a book she has just received, I am green with envy. I have pre-ordered this book in paper back from Amazon and when I check I find its not due to arrive until MAY 2025. I am enraged and order a hard back copy that I can have by Thursday. It won’t be signed by the author but at least I can read it sooner that 2025! I have read all the other books in the series and I am looking forward to reading this as an end of week treat this coming week.

Having had this flurry of activity I do nothing else all day except eat a huge Indian take away and watch sport and detective series episodes on TV until I am fit for nothing other than taking my meds, clearing the kitchen and going to bed. I feel like half athlete, half couch potato, but tonight I don’t much care.