My son and his girlfriend are travelling up from Dorset this evening to stay with us for a couple of days, so my wife wants to make sure that the house is spick-and-span. We also need to visit the garden centre in Overstrand to get the dog’s food (the garden centre has the best price for the brand of dog food that we buy), remembering to go there while they are actually open (we went there yesterday, but 10 minutes after they had closed!).
First things first! Tea, Nutriblast, dog walk.
I split the rest of our supply of logs, fill the log basket, and cover the rest over with a tarpaulin to keep them dry – it looks like there’s about enough wood to last us until the middle of the week, so I’d better make sure I order some more tomorrow.
The spare room is also our store room, so I need to clear some floorspace so that my son and his girlfriend can actually get to the bed (which is stacked up with boxes, too). I move my camera, tripod, and various bags of camera equipment into a corner of our bedroom, and shift the laser printer onto the top of a chest of drawers (it usually lives on the floor of the spare room). It’s looking more like a bedroom already. My wife moves the rest of the boxes (some into our bedroom, some into the loft), and I make the bed. Job done!
We go to the garden centre before it gets too late, buy the dog food, a large terracotta planter for the back garden and a couple of plant pot holders for indoors. When we get back home, I light the fire while my wife vacuums, mops floors, cleans the bathroom and prepares our dinner – seems like a fair division of labour to me!
Tremor is really well controlled today. Dystonia is ok. Dyskinesia is passable. Balance is rubbish. Voice is okay. Mood, motivation, energy – all okay.
We eat dinner, pour a beer and await the arrival of our guests.