Wednesday 6th May 2026

Middle of the week.

And I manage to go back to sleep and sleep in until gone seven, waking with Cleo asleep beside me, snuggling up at the back of my knees.

So, in short. My legs were better, but the damaged areas needed air, so I would wear shorts all day and take off the bandage. Only sun dried my skin out too much, so I would sit inside most of the day.

There was nothing planned. And there was rain forecasted. Which didn't arrive.

It is ten years since our trip to Japan, so I am posting my blog of the trip on BlueSky, in 240 character posts, most with an accompanying image, so that takes an hour of the morning to download the images from Flickr and repost them.

Not sure if anyone is going to look at them, but for me a reminder o the wonderful things we did over there with Jen.

In the garden, what is left of the wisteria is in flower, two dangling strings of flowers hang from the remaining half of the twig, and if you get in close, looks fabulous.

Jools went to keep fit, so I stayed home and did Ian things. I listened to the latest Danny Baker podcast and relived Sunday evening's experience.

One of the hardest habits to break is the weekly shop. Shopping for a week when we can go every day. Sometimes it leaves us with spare food that sometimes goes bad, so instead of going shopping, we will have the courgettes as fritters that afternoon, no pizza for us!

It might not have rained, but was cold. Cold enough to turn the heating on after trying to hold out until after nine. Darn it, why suffer?

There's nothing to watch on TV. Even with the hundreds of extra channels we now get on Sky. I still have not learned how to get certain Sky channels, like Sky Arts, just to search for programs. I look at the list of films, and I see nothing I recognise or want to watch.

Dinner, served at two, was fritters with chilli mayonnaise. And as we desired something sweet, I made a half batch of short cakes, which were just out of the oven when Di from over the road came round, with news of a caravan park being planned for along Collingwood, though it might impact us too.

So, I made brews and served Di a fresh and still warm short cake along with a brew, while we talked.

Di is scared of the world, thanks in no small part to whatever right-wing paper, probably the Hate Mail, she reads. And I try to comfort her with the fact that serious crime, including knife crime, is well down year on year and the world, London in particular isn't as bad as some would have you believe.

That just left the evening, with more footy on the radio: Bayern v PSG, and the follow up to the nine goal thriller of last week. Bayern had to win by two, but they never really looked like they could do it, and once PSG scored after 3 minutes to make it 6-4 on aggregate, it was pretty much game over.

Kane scored in injury time, but no time for the equaliser, so PSG go through to face Arsenal.