Dot on our walk near Caistor on Saturday. She has been with Barbara today, working on her philosophy with children stuff. I have been up to collect her pills, but otherwise have been working on poems and plays to enter into competitions. Have made some progress, but need to buy some more paper and A4 envelopes. Keep getting bizarre phone calls, from Zenith, market research people and other odd unknowns. Quite wintry today.

Yesterday I booked a couple of holiday cottages – one in Scotland for July, to be shared with David and Vicky and the children, and the other in Cheltenham in August, when we plan to go to Greenbelt with the Greens. Appropriately enough.