Thursday, a work day with lots of meetings and the open forum. It turns out to be a tricky day, a colleagues mother dies and my partners brother ends up being admitted to hospital over night. Its another day I do not train, sometimes there are more important things to do. In the end I retreat to a bath bomb bath and then watch a mindless American ice hockey film, which was not only violent for the sake of it but was based on appalling white working class stereotypes.
Friday, Good Friday, bit of a misnomer, my partners brother has been diagnosed as having a bleed on the brain and an aneurism in the neck area. He rings my partner in the morning from the hospital and tell her he is currently “nil by mouth”, so some sort of intervention might be close. He might have to go to another hospital, which has the equipment required. There is nothing we can do except wait and get on with what we intended to do. So we breakfast and head for a local park to walk and to watch the ducks. Its a relief to be out. On the way home we visit the garden centre where we pick up some food and a Broom of the shrub variety. I plant the Broom while my partner cooks scones. While planting the Broom I notice holes in the lawn and then spot the emerging tenant. Pretty amazing, see below:
Mystery Holes 
The tenant emerges
We sit down to eat the fresh scones, my eldest daughter having popped to the village to get cream, jam and a paper. It is a pleasant time as we chat and wait. After a while we set about our separate chores and activities. I set off for the garage to row for an hour to try and loosen up and work off some energy. It goes well.
Kilometres 
Calories and time
The family come to together for a late tea of lasagne and salad before I return to the lounge to catch up on the blog from yesterday and today. In the background Vera resolves a murder. We as a family wait for more news.
