Tuesday and I am awake at a reasonable time as my partner goes off to the physio to be followed by her aqua class at the gym. I get up and cook myself a three egg herb and cheese omelette and take my morning meds. I then spend time filling my meds dossettes for the next two weeks. I add the additional steroids for the end of the week when Cycle 6 starts. Its a fiddly job but pays dividends in terms of keeping me organised and on track. With that done I type up the poem I wrote before getting up.

513
A friend suggested
a spring poem,
one of hope 
and renewal.
A few verses
to lift my gloom,
shake off the grim
and shed some light.
The problem is
it’s not there.
I can’t write 
what isn’t in me,
so I hack ahead
and see where
this leads.
It appears 
the seasons
are unpredictable.
					513 07-04-2026

Typing it up reminds me that I have not posted anything on my poetry website for a few days and should think about putting some new poems up and also making new videos to post as well. But not today. I gather my things together and go out to the Shed. Its an age since I inhabited my Shed and wrote any letters. My head has been so lax recently that I have not written to friends for a very long time and that won’t do at all. So I spend time in the Shed writing a couple of letters. It is hard work but made easier by my new Mont Blanc pen that was a Christmas present. Extravagant but lovely, it is so smooth to write with. I use all my old rituals, sealing the letters with my seal ring and adding the odd sticker or two. y the time I have finished two letters I am tired and take a break to spend time on the swing seat. I notice how good the magnolia tree is looking.

I close the Shed up and then take a walk over to the post box and send my letters on their way. Back home I settle down to begin to draft the blog until its time for the evening meal. Once food is over my partner and I begin to watch a new drama series Slow Horses, which turns out to be good. I return to the blog and then take my night meds before turning in for the night. Tomorrow is oncology review day so there is a bit of prep to do in the morning, I need to be clear about what I want to know about my latest scan.