I went in to see Isobel just after 5pm. I found Isobel had eaten her way through the box of chocolates Dallas and Mike had brought yesterday. Isobel had chicken and vegetables for lunch; but although she said she had just had her tea she could not remember what it had been. I thought I had arrived so late that I had missed Isobel's tea - although some patients eat in one of the communal rooms, because of the need to feed some patients in their rooms mealtimes tend to be long drawn out affairs but Isobel's weekday tea is usually at 5pm. The mystery was solved when tea arrived at ten to six! Isobel had cheese omelette followed by trifle. I looked at Isobels food intake record and she is still eating everything placed in front of her.

Isobel was relaxed and cheerful. Her speech was however again very difficult to follow, this has happened several days this week, although it does vary from day to day and within the same day. What has been unusual this week is that difficult to follow speech has not been associated with tiredness. While we chatted we finished off another box of chocolates that had just a few sweets left in it. Isobel seemed to have a little more difficulty than usual handling the sweets. Unwrapping them was sometimes too difficult for her and placing them into her mouth required concentration and effort. I stayed until a quarter past seven. It has rained on and off all weekend, although nothing like as heavily as last week. The land is saturated however and the flooding on the road home was worse than last week.