I ‘phoned one of our residents, to see how she’s recovering from a nasty pavement fall. As well as lots of stitches above her eye, she’s lost feeling to part of her scalp and was telling me how odd it feels when she’s blow-drying her hair. However, she was looking forward to a week away in the family caravan; I hope she has a well-deserved rest and break. After several other calls, I chatted with one of our supporters, she’s really been hit sideways by both a family bereavement and nasty bug. Cllr colleague, Steve, is pleased that some ugly and dangerous old coal-bunkers will be removed from the gardens of bungalows for retired people. Hubby and Cllr colleague, Andrew’s still chasing broken promises to re-house a local family as well as recovering from mountains of leafleting in the by-election.

Yesterday, we took our youngest son out to lunch at Sam’s Chop House. He was delighted to be able to eat as well as watch the Monaco Grand Prix! Celebrating the end of his BTEC studies and hoped for results, it will not be long before he’s also away at Uni. Whilst the ‘boys’ were sorting out their mobiles, I escaped to buy some new makeup ready for both an evening out and a course I’m being sent on in a few weeks. Jodie on Selfridge’s Clinique counter was a marvel. She not only showed me new colours and how to use products better, I left with newly ‘painted’ face and step by step chart ….. as well as new bits and pieces …

By half nine this morning, my husband still in bed, I had my arm down a drain. I’d been putting this job off for weeks. Being mucky and smelly, I decided to finish digging a tree root out of the back garden, move a fir tree and a few bushes around, ‘turned’ the compost heap and take up some of our crazy paving to plant herbs. All I need now is a cool rainy day to ‘bed’ everything in again! A day’s rain is all I need as we’ve got leaflets to get out and I haven’t done any all weekend …. so need to show willing ….