Up early to let me partner out to work and off to the gym for me to have breakfast and to do the crosswords. It was good to have an early start and to get to the supermarket early to get printer cartridges and most importantly a triple chocolate cake for our expected visitors on Sunday. On an impulse I drop into Pets Are Us and pick up some pretty gravel for the fish along with some Elder Guppies, small but brightly coloured little fish that will add variety to my guppies community.

So with my bag of fish I return home and tidy up while my fish acclimatise in the bag floating in the tank. While they get used to their new tank I wash the pretty gravel and add it to the tank. Once released the new fish happily swim off into the depths of the weeds and rocks and I return to preparing for our March holiday.

I input the new passport details into the holiday site and choose our extra leg room seats on the flights. This was all straight forward but I still needed to find some holiday insurance. I trawled the usual sites for a long time but as soon as I declared my cancer the amount that was required ran in to thousands of pounds. I then started to look for companies that would exclude medical cover but found none. I was getting frustrated when I found a blog where people were discussing the problem. Bingo there is a travel insurance company that will insure you but will not cover anything that arises from a declared illness. Globallinks.co.uk is the company, Their over 70+ gold insurance cost me £62 for the weeks insurance, that’s far more like it and realistic given my general good condition.

So I was pleased with myself, the only thing left is to book a taxi and check in on line when the opportunity comes open next week. I retreat to the shed and write a letter which I then post in the village indulging in a bacon baguette at the village café on the way back. By the time my partner returns from work I have organised quite a lot of things and I am getting ready to go out to eat with friends in the evening. There is nothing like a good pie night especially back at the venue where we got civil partnered a month ago. It was a lovely evening with good food and conversation. On returning home we found our youngest daughter had arrived and gone to bed leaving a treasure trove of chocolate and sweet goodies in the kitchen. We followed quite quickly after as I needed to be up early to take the Sainsbury’s deliver.