Held up by rush hour traffic I did not arrive until after 5pm and Isobel had just begun to be fed her tea. I took over and she ate mushroom omelette (ugh!) followed by arctic roll. When she had finished this (in other words, about two minutes later) she had tomato soup which had been too hot to start with. As usual, tea was accompanied by a mug of tea, today Isobel had half a mug of Ribena straight after.

Isobel was again relaxed and cheerful. Her speech was however very muddled and almost every conversation needed a lot of discussion to tease out the meaning. The zygocactus still looks splendid and attracts admiring comments, but the first few flowers are starting to fade and if it behaves the way it did last year it will have finished sometime in the middle of next week. At the moment it is repaying the care lavished on it during the past year.

Isobel tried the Breton biscuits in Zoë's box and enjoyed them. She also had a few chocolates. Despite the difficulty with speech she was very chatty. As I was preparing to leave, Louisa, Teri and Sue (? or was it Toni?) arrived. Louisa was able to clear up the mystery of yesterday's visitor, it had been Chris Richmond, her old head teacher from Hook Lane School. It is a little worrying that Isobel had not been able to describe her more accurately. I left Isobel with the three girls just after seven o'clock.