Saturday, a brief lay in and then coffee before getting up for breakfast. By 11 o’clock I Am driving my partner and my youngest daughter adn her partner to Stoughton Howard Estate. Its raining when we get there so we pop in the automata work shop. Its full of delights and on feeding a couple of the displays we watch them spring to life.

We have lunch and then visit the art shops before walking down to the reservoir and watch the swans. Having soaked up the views we visit the garden centre and where we have warm drinks. The rai falls heavily adn the skies are very dark so we decide to return home.

Back home I watch some international rugby and open the days post. There is the report from the oncologist from my last review in which he says that my appointment with a new oncologist for radiotherapy, The wording is disturbing in that it suggests that I ‘m not being offered radio therapy only being assessed and on the basis of yet another scan to be done in April and another set of bloods. So I am in more of a hinterland than I thought. There is nothing I can do other than stay with my plan A, moisturise, train and diet. I move onto the solicitor’s letter regarding my sisters estate. There are questions that I need to discuss with my daughters and a letter to sign. There are other documents included, some of which are intriguing. The rugby end and dinner is ready.

After dinner I sit with my two daughters and we order flowers for my sisters funeral. We then discuss the solicitors letter and what we want to do. We cover a lot of issues and when we have finished I spend the rest of my evening drafting a letter to the solicitor. I run off copies for my daughters to see in the morning. Then I set about drafting the blog. I’m tired and send my end of day birthday message to a friend, take my meds and go to bed. Tomorrow there is more death admin to do adn instructions to be sent to the funeral directors.