A delayed posting of Mondays blog as a result of late night disruption. There have been several minor falls in the last few days, Isobel seems to be losing the uncanny knack she had developed of breaking her falls by falling against safe objects, so it is up to us to catch her now.

Isobel was a little better on Monday morning and bathed, dressed, breakfasted and took her medicine without any problems. Iona came over at 9am and took Isobel to the hospice. I collected her in the afternoon, she had not had a bad day. She will be at the hospice again tomorrow but not on Thursday as they are still having problems with the lift giving access to the lower ground floor where day centre activities are normally based.

Isobel had tagliatelli bolognese for dinner followed by rhubarb yogurt. A surprising aspect of the personality changes that have happened to Isobel is an increased interest in sport. Tonight she watched the athletics on television until 9pm, afterwards she spoke to her mother by 'phone (I have been trying to get her to do this for about a week). On the whole this was a good afternoon and evening for Isobel, but an hour or so later she was extremely uncooperative about getting ready for sleep and even with Euans help it was a long and trying task.