29th October: Who burnt the toast?

Started my marking at 6am while it was cool and quiet, managed to get finished by 11am, in time to visit Simon for lunchtime. He was narked about something to do with the morning toast - perhaps it was burnt. Small things like that can really put your day out - I can remember being in hospital once and the orderly declaring that there was no time to make toast and we would all have to go without. We were outraged, protests were organised and one patient raised a petition to be sent to the Secretary of State. It was all over by tea-time.

Simon's diabetes nurse came to give me training on how to use the blood glucose meter and the insulin pen - I've been using these things daily for about two years, but didn't like to interrupt so listened patiently. Simon was grinning.

I think that we have approval for overnight leave this weekend. Whoopee! It will be over 30 degrees and very hot on Sunday - hope that our air conditioner still works after the winter break. We have had some beautiful days this week high 20s / low 30s just perfect (except for having to work).

Simon gets his first dip in the hydrotherapy pool tomorrow morning. I plan to get there early to witness this - it will be great to see him in the water again.

Just when I thought the marking was finished, some more came along. Interesting stuff though, two honours theses on lively topics.

All seems to be proceeding well with the house, the Oz system seems to be fairly straightforward so long as you pay people to do all the leg work, it is mostly a matter of signing lots of documents. Shirley had a more difficult experience in Tunisia where they use an archaic French system. They can actually hold up a transaction for failure to pay 1 Dinar (50 pence?) for the rubbish collection.

Some of you have had phone calls from Simon but couldn't work out who it was. If you get an odd call, it might just be Simon. I know that he phoned Aiden, we had a text from him sounding confused.

Love Marian x