Up early and off to London. All a bit of a daze really but once I am on the train I read. I have returned to Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man and The Truce.

The hour passed quickly before we pulled into my favourite Tracy Emin.

I walk to the RCP and have breakfast and prepare for my one to one with the programme manager of Enabling Environments. My manager turns up and after a quick chat with another colleague we set up in one of the ground floor work rooms. We start with an in formal chat about poetry. I suggested Kate Tempest, one of my favourite contemporary poets.

The rest of the time we spent in discussing the work and the services response to our support. That took us to lunchtime and my journey back to Leicester. I caught the early train by two minutes and settled once again into This Is A Man. I am not sure how I feel about reading the life lead by those who were subjected to the Nazi work and extermination camps. It is a relentless grind of survival in appalling conditions beautifully observed and recorded by Levi. The tragedy is that Levi died having committed suicide in 1987, although this has been challenged by many who knew him at the time.

Back in Leicester I drive to the gym and indulge in a dish of soup and the newspapers while I wait for my partner who has a session booked with her personal trainer. When she arrived I was tired and decided to go home to eat and write the blog and watch some cup football.