CYCLE 5 DAY 16

I woke up this morning after a night of disrupted sleep due to hot flushes and my inability to fully get to grips with the rooms heating system. I was tempted to just go back to sleep but as I was in a hotel room I was determined to get my money’s worth which included a breakfast I did not have to cook or go far for. So I go down to the restaurant and get greeted by the regular head waiter who waves cheerily and asks how I am. I used to be a regular at this hotel and being a true professional he had logged me.

 I checked my e-mails and WhatsApp over breakfast and made a couple of calls, serendipitously an old colleague was available for coffee who I could drop in on my way to my Leeds meeting. I checked out and met my old colleague, who was glad to see me as it saved her the trouble of mailing me a Christmas present. She is someone who reads my blog and, like several others, have been taken by the frogs that sometimes appear in the blog to brighten things up. She had found that it’s possible to get them and has given me her favourite one. It is of course the frog blowing a raspberry. I think I have mentioned that when I experience the Dark and Tricky stuff that sometimes goes in my head that the antidote to it is to blow raspberries at it. The frog embodies the spirit of this and now the frog sits and watches me as I type the blog.

 Onward to my Leeds meeting which was brief and straight forward and then back home down the trusty M1. My priority was to get in to a warm bath, hotels having only showers, to soak the ache out of my pigeons egg injection lump in my midriff due to Mondays monthly injection. The only bath bomb available being a Harry Potter Golden Snitch I ended up being quite sparkly to watch football and to complete some on line Christmas shopping during the evening.

 I end my day blogging and looking forward to tomorrow during which I shall vote, have bloods taken and spend the rest of the day with my partner at a spa pretending the election is not happening.