250%

L is in work on Monday and with a boss, so she stays there and is annoyed to miss the thrill of Sainsbury’s.

My health is not yet 100%, so I cancel my cycling session as that requires at least 250% health. Daughter is away but having the house to ourselves sadly coincides with me passing my germs on to ill who retreats to bed at 7pm where she stays for most of Tuesday having cancelled her PT and stayed off work. She briefly emerges for the dog walks in the morning and evening but returns to bunker in between.

We defer Tuesday's Steak Night until L is better and instead I take my Dad out to a very quiet New Inn amidst heavy rain.

By Wednesday L is recovering but very slowly and still cancels Wednesday’s yoga and book club. She also moves her usual Thursday with her parents to Saturday.

By Saturday L is firing on all cylinders and just in time for Alvaston Parkrun. After which, while L is visiting her Dad I take mine to a pair of doctor’s appointment and then to Brenda’s cafe on London Road for lunch.

In the evening, we walk down to Caning Circus where after having found the Blue Monkey to be too busy, we have one in the Good Fellow George before settling in the Borlase where we get to flirt with an eleven-week-old whippet puppy.

On Sunday we do a joint gym and then we do our third cinema week in a row. It is by far the oddest of the three and is called Timestalker. 

Alice Lowe plays a woman who continually regenerates after death into another person, forever in pursuit of the same man and forever destined to die for him or because of him, usually horrifically. In the 17th Century she is a maidservant who is enamoured with a preacher about to be executed. In 18th Century she is a noblewoman who has a fascination with a highwayman. In the 1980s she is a superfan chasing a pop star. 

She also pops up in between but some of these are so fleeting you lose track of what's going on as the film gets forever messier and you perhaps come to the conclusion that she, and perhaps everyone else, are just totally mad.

We try to debrief afterwards over a Thai curry in Paste. 

(Sunday 13^th October)