Thursday 11th June 2026

It is time.

But it is also Thursday.

And Thursday means phys and going to the gym.

So, as usual, I was dead to the world when the alarm went off, and after a couple of minutes crawled out of bed and into the world.

Cats tested, jabbed and fed. We drink coffee. And are out of the house at ten to six, arriving at the sports centre dead on six, and the doors were already opened.

I do my usual session. Forty minutes, and so am all hot and bothered, I go down to cool down outside, wait for Jools, then we walk to the car and drive to Tesco.

Where the big empty space now has hoardings round it, and a combination lock on the door.

Great things are coming, we're told.

This does meal there is less of the other stock, and aisles have been combined, making finding stuff even harder.

But we're round in twenty minutes and back home by half seven, well before rush hour and the school run combine.

It was to be cool and breezy. But even we were surprised how breezy and cold it would become. Especially as there was sunshine early on, but soon it clouded over, the wind built, so we closed the door, windows and buckled so turned the heating on at lunchtime as we were so darned cold.

Soon the clouds produced rain.

Then lots of rain.

And that was that.

The rain lasted into the afternoon and evening, so we went nowhere.

I had a delivery of beer to wait in for, then it was left outside so the box was sodden, and hidden behind the bins.

Not much else to say, other than in the evening there was the opening game of the World Cup, Mexico v South Africa, and a game as one sided as its possible to get, though Mexico score just two goals, though three players sent off.

There is a second game later, kicking off at three in the morning. I would be asleep.