Compared to the weekend, today was a better day for Isobel. We rose bright and early at 5-30am as the sun was up. Isobel has shown less signs of tiredness during the day and has hardly dozed at all.

After lunch we drove to Hall Place where we met our friend Donna for a cream tea. The plan was to walk a few yards from the car park to the tearoom, then after tea to go round the grounds by wheelchair. However when we arrived the car park was full and we had to use the overflow car park a hundred yards away. Isobel decided to walk to the tearoom, about two hundred yards in total. She just managed the walk but needed a lot of support for the second hundred yards, the walk took a quarter of an hour. Isobel enjoyed the cream tea, but part way through the sky clouded over and distant thunder and lightning suggested the tour of the grounds should be postponed. While Isobel and Donna lingered over the remains of the cream tea discussing matters of feminine hygiene I collected the wheelchair as the first drops of rain began falling. As we returned to the car hailstones fell around us.

After dinner Isobel indulged one of her new found interests and watched the USA v Italy football. She went to bed at 10pm, and hopefully will not get up at 5-30am tomorrow!