My daughter wants to go shopping today. She has an idea of what she wants to get for Christmas for my wife’s sons and their other halves, but hasn’t yet had the chance to buy the gifts, so we get ourselves sorted out at home (tea, coffee, breakfast, dog walk) and then set off for North Walsham.
After an hour and a half spent wandering around various shops we have had enough and my daughter has purchased what she wanted to purchase, so we get back into the car and drive on to Stalham to visit my mother.
My mum (who has advanced Parkinson’s) is pleased to see her son and her granddaughter, and her voice is stronger than usual, so she is actually able to have a conversation (of sorts) with us.
My tremor is very close to the surface and breaking through on both sides from time to time, but it is manageable so I’m not going to make any adjustments today. It’s only later in the day that I notice that I managed to select my Group “B” settings instead of Group “A” when I changed my device to its daytime voltages this morning – not sure how I managed to do that, but at least it explains the way my tremor differs from the way it was yesterday. I set it back to Group “A” and things improve (to a degree).
My wife’s son and his girlfriend are coming over to see my daughter and to have dinner with us this evening, so we drive back to Southrepps in time to see them. Then it is time for my daughter to drive back home to Stevenage (a truly flying visit) as she has things she needs to do at home before she travels to Dorset to spend Christmas with her mother.
By the time we have the house to ourselves again, all we want to do is clear up the fallout from the evening meal, crack open a beer and sit by the fire while some soothing music (London Grammar) plays on the sound system.