Tuesday and I wake up to an empty bed as my partner has gone to work and the builder badgers have also arrived and parked on the drive. I struggle up and make the badgers early coffee and then make my own breakfast. I am barely sentient when I realise a very large builders delivery truck has arrived and is unloading huge bags of materials.

So while the badgers continue to move piles of hard core and filler I get on with a day of writing letters and reading. My day is all letter writing and making coffee for the builder badgers. There is no break until about three o’clock when the badgers pack up for the day as the gloom gathers and they drive off. Half an hour later I am walking to the post office to send my letters and to pick up a paper.

At home there are the bins to put out and some kitchen clearing to be done before my partner returns from work. As I have a paper I do the days cross words which I do wearing my new cardigan. This the garment that was advertised as an Icelandic heavy knit. It is not, it is a cardigan but quite thin and clearly an Chinese knock off. I suspect I will wear it as a garden jersey. I am clearly out of salts and taken out of my stride by two early starts and my lack of training and it is not going to get better tomorrow as I have my pre-operation assessment at the hospital tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock. I need to rest and get back into my routine once I have dealt with tomorrow. For now I will settle for shower, night meds and early night.