The first Monday back after the holiday and it is a twenty eight day jab day. There is no time to hang around this morning so I am up and showered in time to be in the GP surgery for 9:40am. It is my usual nurse who pumps the large amount of fluid into me. On my way home I drop into the pharmacists and pick up my out standing prescription. My twenty eight drug is there but in a different format, so I assume they had to find an alternative supplier.

Once home I make a breakfast and settle down to do the days crosswords. With the puzzles completed I turn my attention to the new Internet hub that BT has sent me. The first task is to look at the existing set up and the old hub, taking the precaution of photographing it all before I start out on the task. Its a jungle of wires and leads, some of them still have the labels I put on them telling me what they are. Past Roland was quite wise. I have to move load of stuff out of the office and clear the work surface before I can take the risk of unplugging stuff. As a diversion I go food shopping with my partner at the new garden centre. Its a quick in and out job and we are soon home. A friend calls just as I arrive home and I have the pleasure of a chat with her about holidays, families and children. It’s a real pleasure to have a conversation out side the household and to catch up with news of people I know.

I return to my rats nest of wires, cables and connectors. Some have labels, some do not so I spend a long time tracing which wires run from what to where. Eventually it comes to the moment of truth and I start to put connectors into the ack of the hub, importantly the phone line for the phone into the new portal in the back of the hub. the moment of truth comes when I plug the hub into the mains and switch on. Ta Da! the hub goes orange and then blue, it works. I check the phone works by ring the home phone and using the home phone to ring my mobile, both calls are successful. I then spend a lot of time connecting all the things that need the new connection to the new hub. One TV, a PC and two laptops later the work is done. I print off the hub information for the rest of the household and leave them to sign up in their own time.

By now I am running out of energy and my injection site is becoming sore. Time to rest and eat and finish the Agatha Christie on TV. I draft the blog and then take myself to bed full of meds and pain killers.