Convalescing in the garden

Wake at 5:30, let Normy out and give him his breakfast and then sleep until nine. I make boiled eggs, soldiers and tea for breakfast, which I eat in the kitchen. Around ten thirty I take Norman down the lane, Pip phoned and told me not to take Dolly and Teddy today as Andrew has a day off. It is a lovely sunny morning but the breeze from the southwest has eased somewhat, although it still takes the edge off the heat. I am still coughing up phlegm but it is clearer in colour so I think the infection might be subsiding, although I still feel weak. When we get back I clean the kitchen and then vac through the house, before giving Normy a bath and clipping his nails. Afterwards he runs round the garden like a two year old. Around noon I drive to Sarah's and check on the progress with the decorators before calling at Tesco to shop. I buy breakfast things, some salad, a baguette, tins of tuna and some Chardonnay. When I get in I boil up an egg and some new potatoes and then make a salad nicoise, which I eat in the garden with a glass of wine. I read for an hour and then have to lie down as the heat, the wine and my illness combine to put me to bed. I get up at five and give the dog his dinner and then get a phone call from Clement regarding the house he is renting. I seem to spend the next hour or so filling in online forms and then find I need to post proof of income from the post box in the village. Normy and I walk down there and send it off and then head home for dinner, Camembert and crusty bread, which I eat in the garden. To bed around eleven.