DVT DAY 270

Its Thursday and once again I get up before the decorators arise. A quick dish of cereals and coffee and I start to get ready for my morning meetings. I move myself into the newly decorated back bedroom for some privacy. So I set myself up amidst the boxes of stuff waiting to be out back in place. The meeting is straight forward with planning for future meetings to come and some division of work related to that. There is also the bits of gossip that make the world go round and of course we talk about the effect of the new COVID vaccine. For us as a team it might allow us to get back to actually making visits to the services we work with. A final comment about tonight’s football and we push the button to say farewell.

I do not have much of a break before I am back online to host an open forum for a group of managers. My co-host has a bad back and really just wants to lay down. The forum is full of issues and things to note, so I try to facilitate sensitively while scribbling notes. At the end of the hour my co host goes off to lay down and I go to the kitchen to find freshly baked cheese scones. That’s lunch sorted.

I busy myself sorting out my weekly laundry and once underway get a loaf underway as well. There are chores of tidying to do as the decorators crack on doing the office. My partner ring the hospital to find out how her mother is. The nurse says she is out of bed with the physiotherapist and is okay, and with a think you and goodbye ends the call. Later on my partners mother rings and confirms she is up and okay.

We potter and find ourselves playing chess as everyone in the household is now on leave and finding ways to entertain themselves as our planned long weekend as a family in a cottage has been cancelled. The decorators leave and we reclaim the house. So its time for dinner and an evening of football for me as I finish my laundry and turn out the fresh loaf. Tomorrow beckons and the promise of new bath panels being fitted to complete the upgrade of the bathroom. There will be more moving of “stuff” around to clear the lounge ready for redecoration so we need to normalise as many of our spaces as possible.