Sunday, a grey misty Sunday and I am woken by my partner with my customary hot water. I take my vitals and then get my breakfast and morning meds. The plan for this morning is to go for a Sunday walk, a better option than the gym, I think. So once ready my partner and I get in the car and drive to the local reservoir. Its a pretty big reservoir and is a challenge to get around. We set off in our boots and begin our circumnavigation of the reservoir. There is a battle field of moles, everywhere we look their little hillocks of fresh soil dot the paths and fields. There are of course the usual birds that come with open water, swans, ducks, coots and moorhens. The hedgerows have been flailed so its easy to spot the numerous birds flitting in and out of them, including several robins. The reservoir walk is 2.5 miles and I think its a long time since either of us has walked that far. We plod on stopping once or twice to recharge and to admire the view, its been a really long tie since we have taken this walk. As we come close to the end of the walk we come across the cormorants. Magnificent birds just sitting there looking out over the water.

The walk finishes with my partner and I recovering in the car before setting off to one of our local garden centre coffee houses. The hot chocolate and toasted tea cake goes down well before we return home. The rest of the afternoon I spend watching snooker and the end of a Harry Potter film.

The evening comes around with food and time to catch up with drafting the blog while TV provides some media wall paper. It has to be an early night today as once again we have the builder badgers in to continue the block paving around the house and putting in a bin stand, so that means getting up at 8 o’clock and sorting out the car parking. Its going to be a demanding week. So tonight its finalising the Tesco order and making sure that I have everything organised for my week, which includes my pre operation assessment.