End of Easter Week – it’s now halfway through Friday afternoon and sunny at the moment. It’s been a mixed week as far as weather is concerned. Monday started very wet, but cleared out just after lunch, and I walked with Dot down to Carrow Road. Norwich 0 Rotherham 0. Walked back via Morrisons and river bank. Watched TV in evening. Headache. 

Tuesday was bright in the morning: gradually got cooler and then rain. Walked up to Apple shop, but it was very busy because of school holidays. So didn’t get anywhere – partly because I wasn’t in the right mood. Walked back, feeling pretty down for various reasons. Anna came to lunch and then gave Dot a violin lesson. I lay down for a while. Rang Cresta care home to fix a visit with Thelma for the next day. Watched the end of Why didn’t they ask Evans? – a Christie adaptation – very clever and well done. Also some other stuff. Naomi cancelled visit because she wasn’t feeling well. 

Felt very down on Wednesday morning because of poor night and a couple of other things. Barry arrived about 1pm and I left him with Dot to do some work in the bathroom. Then I went to see Thelma on my own. Took big collage of pictures of Andrew, as well as a few others – one of Sandra and two of Joanne (and Eddie) taken from Facebook. Had a bit of a problem on the way there because of warning light re automatic stop/start. Eventually turned it off, but by the end of the day it was back on again and appeared to be working fine.

Thelma was a bit more animated than usual, but still very deaf. Told me about Bob (Sheila’s brother), who came to see her from Loddon. Later went to Morrisons with Dot and bought food. In the evening watched four episodes of The Bay, which was pretty good. Two to go. Received another tanka book from Joy: daybreak. Good stuff.

Yesterday was mainly bright and dry, but with some sharp rain showers, especially in the morning. Vicki Ellis came round for coffee and eventually stayed for lunch, which was very enjoyable. When she left we drove to Foxley Wood, hoping to see some bluebells, but were disappointed. Although we have bluebells out in our garden, there were none at Foxley. Had quite a long walk, which was rather muddy and not very interesting, as well as being poorly signposted.

Arrived home just in time to see Bridget, who we had forgotten was coming initially, though we were in touch by phone from Foxley. Dot gave her some advice on wall paint. In the evening saw last two episodes of The Bay, which remained pretty good. Amy got in touch about her visit on Saturday. Matt is ill, and eventually we decided it was best to postpone till the following week. 

This morning the Sonata alarm man came just before 9am: fortunately I had taken the precaution of getting dressed. No problems there. Later Linda came round, and we both had our hair cut. Des and Chris are still away. Dot is in the garden as I write.