Wednesday and I wake from a reasonable nights sleep feeling okay but in need of a shower, so after taking my vitals and having breakfast I showered. Having emptied the dishwasher I go into my work clothes and gathered up my “de mossing” tools to go in the car. The intention was to de-moss my partner’s mothers’ patio this afternoon while she and her brother visit their mother.
I listen to an episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage before lunch and turning the cars round in the drive. I idle a few minutes away drafting the blog while I give my partner and brother a head start to their mothers.
Once I get to my partners mothers I set to work assessing the problem and deciding on the best solution. Its dry so I decide not to deluge everything in water but go for scouring the patio with a wire brush and then treating it with an anti moss and weed killer. I beaver away till the patio is scoured and then I treat the margins of the front path before treating the whole of the patio and the garden steps. If it stays dry for a while and reasonably bright the effects should be visible soon. I have a quick sit down with my partners mother before getting my gear together and driving home.
As I arrive home the garden guy arrives so there is a flurry of activity till I can sit down and take stock of the day so far. I check my phone and find a message telling me an automated hospital booking system is going to ring in half an hour. I have no idea why I need an appointment. Dead on time OTTO rings and introduces herself adn asks me questions about who I am . With introductions done OTTO says she is from the cardiac unit ad asks if I am available on the 2nd of December. I say yes and OTTO says thank you and tells me I will get a letter adn then just rings off. I have not got a clue why the cardiac boys and girls want to see me given I have been discharged to my GP by the cardiac team who saw me when I was in hospital and after my stress and relaxed heart scans. Its a mystery so all I can do is turn up on the 2nd and see what they have to say for them selves.
With the new appointment in the diary I make myself tea as my partner is our for the evening. Over tea I check to see where my latest poetry collection is in the process of publication and to my surprise I find it is available on Amazon. Of course I order some but that will be my last foray into self publishing this year. As usual it does not feel real and I will wait till the physical copies are in my hands before I share the new book here. It now gets taken as a run of the mill event in this household now, life just goes on, no celebration or comment. I settle down to watch football and continue to draft the blog. And so the day draws to an end with a new mystery to consider. I reflect quietly on today and wonder if I am alone in this and then take my meds and go to bed. Tomorrow I have booked coffee with a friend, which means I get to drive again, all part of my continued effort to engage in the world once more. Tomorrow is also a training day, how quickly these weeks are passing.
