To be honest it has been a total car crash of a day. Frankly, it all started yesterday with that utter failure at the cinema. Then, this morning, Serkan messaged me to say he had suddenly been taken very ill so I would have to get myself dressed and breakfasted. At around lunchtime I was feeling very low indeed, worrying about whether I would have help with dinner this evening. Then, to cap it all off, as I was trundling along the road this afternoon, I almost crushed my Ipad: my hat suddenly flew off in a gust of wind, I suddenly halted my powerchair, the Ipad slipped down from my lap and landed in front of my right wheel before the chair jerked forward a bit more.

For a few seconds I honestly thought I’d crushed my Ipad. I started to panic, picking it up. Yet my Ipad is in a protective case, so to my utter astonishment I noticed it wasn’t damaged at all. The rubber of the case was a bit twisted, but even that could be put back into place. I could hardly believe my luck.

All being well, in a few minutes John will arrive to get the evening sorted. I messaged him, and he kindly offered to get an early train back from Cambridge to come and help me. When I read that my relief was literally palpable; it felt that all my concerns of the previous few hours had suddenly vanished. I’m not a religious person, but sometimes it feels like Lyn or someone is ‘up there’ looking down, making sure I don’t muck up too badly. Today could have been a complete catastrophe: I could have smashed my Ipad, I could have starved. But somehow, right now everything is back to normal, and hopefully Serkan will feel better in the morning.

Theres only one thing for it. Time for some of this. All together now…