Monday 7th October 2024

Aki up at 0800 to work at the computer. I got up around 0900. Porridged. Sat about listening to music and reading. Did a bit of guitar work in the back bedroom before lunch. I walked over to Waitrose after lunch to buy some chicken to cook tonight, and get some puff pastry. We walked over to Kate's at Battledean Road around 1700...she's laid up, having had a bunion removed, and a toe straightened, and now has to keep her recovering foot above the level of her heart for most of the time, in order to minimise the risk of a blood clot. So friends have been going round to help out...we were on dinner duty this evening, cooking up a generous portion of chicken cacciatore, and I made some berry and apple hand pies, which we had for afters. Kate seemed in good form, despite having to go up and down stairs on her bum...she won't be allowed to discard her crutches until Xmas! Dinner went down well, and we left her enough to freeze several future meals. Got home around 2130, exhausted!