During the early afternoon Isobel was visited by Pat Ball (Chris's mum) and Ursula who stayed for almost two hours. Isobel said she had enjoyed their visit but could not give more details and I have not spoken to Pat or Ursula yet.

I arrived at just before five, bringing Isobels new shower gels. I found her room filled by Louisa, Teri, Toni, Pam and Sue; they had arrived a few minutes earlier. I gave Louisa a bag of Hook Lane books I had found to take back to school. They left after half an hours lively chat.

Isobel was already tired by the time the girls left. Soon afterwards Isobel's tea of two rounds of cheese and ham sandwiches followed by arctic roll arrived. Isobel likes to sometimes have sandwiches or pizza as she can feed herself these. On this occasion it did not work like this as in the couple of seconds it took me to put away some boxes of chocolates I had taken off the table in order to make room for her meal, she had picked up the arctic roll in her fingers and dropped some of it on her clothes. Once she was cleaned up she dispatched the meal in two or three minutes as usual, washed down with a mug of tea. Meals never take very long. We watched a couple of quiz programmes on television. After these Isobel did not feel like talking and seemed to find it difficult to get herself comfortable. I left soon after 7pm when I think she was settling down to sleep. Perhaps it was because of the multitude of visitors today, but she certainly seemed less relaxed than other days this week.