Monday and a fresh start that stalls, my body just does not feel like it. I have a breakfast of muesli and check my day. The fish are pleading to be cleaned out as they cannot see out of the tank and they are missing the winter Olympics. So I sort out some work emails and then gather up the tools to clean the fish. I spend an hour or so removing algae and refreshing the water levels. It will take a couple of hours for the tank to clear and then the fish will reclaim their place in our lounge. With the fish happier I set about reading the draft training resource that is to be part of a work meeting tomorrow. It is a document that has been edited well and I have fun recognising the bits I have written and identifying the authors of other parts. By lunch time I have addressed the parcels to go to Sri Lanka and my partner and I walk over to the post office to send them off.

There is soup for lunch as I wait for my i-pod to charge. I dither as to whether to wait for Tesco to deliver or train, I decide to check the garden camera to see if our hedgehog had woken up yet and wandered around the garden at night. I retrieve the data card and pop it into my laptop. I start the slow plod through the captures, stopping a couple of times to do other chores. There were the usual pidgeons, squirrels, collared doves, birds, cats and even a lone mouse. Suddenly there was this:

FOX! Yes we get visited by a fox, a big and beautiful fox. I get childishly excited and call the rest of the family to come and view the pictures, who in their turn appear to be excited to. What follows is some techno juggling to get the pictures so I can put them in the blog. Ta Da! The time has flown by and it’s tea time in no time at all as I have started the blog. Tonight I shall continue to watch Young Wallander. I find it an interesting series, refreshing and very working class Swedish. The making of a tortured middle aged man with artist father issues, just up my street. Then it will be drugs and bed.