Thursday and I start with a phone call from a friend as I lay and read some more of Carlo Rovell’s Helgoland. I get to the section on Entanglement and intuitively know I need a quiet long moment to tackle what appears to be the most important section of the book, so I get up and go for a smoothie breakfast and coffee before logging into my first Teams meeting of the day. Its a team meeting to discussed the Open Forums and to think about what comes next. It goes on till people drift away and I and a colleague grab a bit of time to talk football and the lighter things of life. A large number of postal packets arrive but they do not get opened until I’ve had my egg noodle lunch and got ready for my next meeting. My next meeting is an open forum and to my surprise a small number turn up this week. It is productive and there are new observations about how services are moving on with COVID but face new challenges. At the end I explain that my co host will be there fro them next week as I will be having some minor face surgery that day. We say farewell and I move onto opening my packets. The first one is my COVID test that I need to do on Monday and take to the hospital before I isolate prior to my surgery. It also contains the bill and a request for payment. My next packet contains two presents. One is a surprise present that I can open now the other is an early birthday present that I have to promise not to open till my birthday. This is the second person who has sent me a very early birthday present, I wonder if they know something I do not or that people just want to do nice things now and not have to wait. I am touched by my early “can open now present”, it is a hand made T shirt made to measure and looks ace. The other package I squirrel away till July. Its time to change and train so I get myself to the Shed adn climb up onto the bike to do an hour. It goes well and I feel that I am getting fit again.
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I return to the house to shower adn try on my new T shirt. I ring the hospital to pay my invoice for next Thursday and then clear the kitchen ready for tea tonight. I watch some TV during tea and then while my partner has her singing lesson print out instructions and directions for the airbnb we are going to tomorrow. That sorted I pack my overnight bag ready for tomorrow and tick it off my list. Just the car and food to do tomorrow morning now. I sit and write the blog before retiring to bed and reading some more.
