Tuesday and I wake early as the garden builder badgers are due to come and finish the new swing seat deck today. Although I am awake my body is not willing to make the effort so I end up lazing and being brought hot water by my partner. I check my usual message and news feeds before ringing IKEA and cancelling the over large bookcase that I ordered yesterday. With that sorted I get up and make myself breakfast as the builder badgers keep on screwing the top decking into place. It is that time of the month when I have to refill my drugs dosettes. The routine serves me well but the chemo is making such a mess of my nails that getting the pills out of the packaging is becoming a pain. It takes me a while but I get the job done. I move on to finish yesterdays blog draft and search around for the eggs in purgatory recipe I saw on TV last night to include in yesterdays blog. My partner goes to aqua class at the gym and I start on todays draft of the blog.

The garden builder badgers set to work on finishing the swing seat deck. By lunchtime they have completed the work and replaced the swing seat on its new deck. I’m really pleased with the way it has turned out and now look forward to using it.

My afternoon is spent resting while my eldest daughter does her PhD viva via Teams in the back room. It seems to go on for a long time. The outcome is that there are some minor corrections and changes to be made but it all seems to have gone well. My partner returns from visiting her mother in hospital with her brother and we eat tea before she goes off with my eldest daughter to see Jethro Tull at the local concert hall. I hunker down to watch a European football match and end my evening with the inevitable night meds and wander up to bed hoping for a sound sleep. I am tired and desperate to get out tomorrow, I need some fresh air and a change, perhaps even a chilli at the local garden centre.