In the end, I didn’t go to the numismatic Society Committee meeting last night. i just didn’t feel confident about taking my troublesome tubing half-way across town in the late rush hour traffic and sitting in a pub for most of the evening. By 3pm I decided to call off. As luck would have it, I then improved a little. this marks a positive shift in health status as most trends have been downward in the last week or two.

This morning I got up and took Julia in to work for the first time in two weeks then when to visit friends. I was a bit nervous,but it all worked out OK. Things seem to be improving and it looks like I am finally healing.

That is the health news and in years to come I will be able to look at tghis as if leafing through a diary and will be able to depress myself by remembering the times I was confined to the house by my bladder.

That’s even worse than being confined to the house by my fear of going out and being infected with something.

Sausage Pie – Carsington Water

Which reminds me, I need to get my Covid booster done. They keep sending me reminders and it seems rude not to have it after all the trouble they have taken.

I’m cooking tea at the moment. Or, to put it another way, I’m making potato wedges, heating up a quiche and throwing a green salad together. It’s not food preparation at the highest level, but it will keep us going. The salad is done, the wedges are part cooked and the quiche is ready to go in the oven.  I’m on a roll with some articles I’m writing so I begrudge the time I have to spend stopping and cooking. In fact I’m not happy about stopping to eat, but sometimes you have to. I’m hoping to send one article off for the Numismatic Society and preapre a short one for a magazine tonight. Tomorrow I start on the Miniature Medal presentation which is due in September. That’s only about 12 weeks away, which isn’t long.

Cheese and pickle sandwiches – Carsington Water

The food illustrated is far better than the food I will be serving up tonight.