Thursday and I wake up feeling a little more chipper than yesterday. I have breakfast and morning meds and check my bank accounts. All the usual out goings and in comings are in place so I can plan the run in to the new year and Christmas. So here we go into the hurly burly of Christmas admin mixed in with the run up to my face-to-face oncology review in January. I must get my cancer admin right this month as a priority. There is a postal strike again today so I will wait anxiously over the next few days to see whether my sendings arrive and my orders turn up. First job today is booking the Tesco delivery slots for the remainder of the year. I get this done and then do a bit more Christmas shopping on the internet. Finally for the morning I draft my reply to the Elders group thanking them for their message and wishing them luck for the future.

I take a brief break and start to draft the blog. I decide to train before I have any more food today, so I get myself ready. Today its 7 degrees in the garage so I decide to get the thermals out and to go for an hours session. While in my kit I go out to Fort Hog in the garden and refill the food bowl even though I think the likelihood is that next doors cat is eating most of it. I also retrieve garden camera to view later. I then go to the garage and strap myself onto the rower and gently set out. An hour later I am still comfortable and have completed the hour. I have burnt 700+ calories and gone in excess of 11 kilometres.

I record my session and have a mug of soup. I sit and recover for a while until I begin to feel the post chill set in, so I change into my football watching gear and settle down to review the garden camera captures. I find two things of interest, firstly my hedgehog puts in an appearance some nights ago and a fox has put in an appearance. Clearly as winter draws in the animals and birds are coming in from the fields as food becomes scarce.

The camera captures are downloaded, and I transfer some to the blog. This completed as the world cup football starts, Spain (strong favourites) versus Japan and I eat tea enthralled by what looks like an easy match for Spain, until that is Japan score two quick goals. This is how championship football should be. By the end of tonight’s matches both Spain and Japan go through at the expense of Germany after a breath-taking evening of football. At last, the championship comes alive. I finish off the drafting of the blog and prepare for an early night. Night meds, reading and sleep.