Waiting to feel better.

Wake at a quarter to nine to an overcast day, make a full English breakfast and a pot of tea and eat this in the garden. After breakfast wash and shave and then drive to Sarah's with Norman to check on the decorators. As we park in North Bar a text comes from Sarah to say their flight is delayed and they won't be in until 1:00 am. The decorators say they will finish off by tea time with only Sarah and Alice's bedrooms left to do and will come back Sunday to finish off. This leaves Sarah a couple of days to get the house back in order and I text the news to her. No Dolly and Teddy today as Pip won't let me get them when she is not in and she has a dental appointment. Normy and I make our way round the Westwood, the weather mild and overcast with the sun trying to break through but never quite making it. On our way back from Black Mill we meet Elaine and Milo and walk with them for a while. Elaine says she still feels down but I notice she has painted her toenails as they peep through her sandals. I feel no better yet but usually it takes three to four days for the antibiotics to start to work. When we get home I make a pot of tea and take a couple of oaties into the garden and do another extreme mathematical puzzle in the garden. It takes an hour but eventually I crack it, but then feel very tired and so sleep for an hour to recharge my batteries. Norman wants his dinner but we have run out of dog food so I make a spaghetti with the sauce I saved from the other day and share it with the dog, and put lashings of Parmesan on both our portions. I have never met a dog who doesn't like spaghetti Bolognese. Perhaps they have all seen Lady and the Tramp! After dinner Normy and I walk down the lane past the farm to the little wooden bridge over the drain. We get back around seven thirty and feel very tired again, so make a mug of chocolate and sit in the Garden Room and do another puzzle until bedtime. Make a glass of milk and a couple of oaties before turning in.