Tuesday and it was a long and interrupted night so I wake this morning knowing my day is going to be slow. I make a treat of a bacon sandwich for breakfast along with my morning meds. I still cannot taste anything properly, which is a drag. I check my messages and emails and then settle down to read Dante’s Divine Comedy. And that’s what I do for the rest of the day until mid afternoon. I finally reach the end of the epic poem with all the insights of Heaven revealed. Its a strange read, very well translated by Clive James but the references to people and myths are very 13th century as is the philosophy content. So I have time for soup and a bagel before I start to watch the winter Olympics ice hockey.

Later in the afternoon I get a email purportedly from a friend asking me to buy an Amazon gift card. I think I am being scammed. My partner is still recovering from norovirus and by early evening the doctor has promised a visit in the next six hours, so I ease into the evening by drafting the blog and thinking about what I shall eat this evening while watching a football match. Today saw the Brits blow all their chances of Olympic medals so as a nation we are keeping up the image of a decidedly non winter sports nation.

It is being a difficult time so my efforts at writing a sensible blog are somewhat constrained. Its difficult to find the energy at the moment to be creative and to be objective about what is going on. I need to find energy from somewhere. At this time it feels that all I can do is conserve my energy.