While I attempted to empty the contents of the study into every other room of the house, in order to convert it into a more efficient store-room for its original contents and the contents of the living room, Iona sat with her mother. They discussed the choice of wallpaper for one wall of the living room and stuck examples up on the wall of Isobel's room! Iona stayed until about 3pm, then went home before I had arrived.

I arrived at 3.45pm having been delayed trying to sort out various bank accounts. Isobel was alert and her speech was easily understood at first. For dinner Isobel had vegetable soup, spagetti rings on toast and jelly with cream; all washed down by a mug of tea. My metal belt buckle suddenly broke into three pieces and I spent the rest of the day holding my jeans up with one hand.

Some beautiful flowers had arrived from Isobel's mother and Jess. As they were in a cellophane reservoir and the only vase was short and wide I considered leaving them until the next morning when they could be put in a taller vase, but when I checked them I found the cellophane reservoir had already leaked most of the water out. I made a big mess in the bathroom trimming the stems but the wide vase allowed them to be seen at their best.

Isobel finished her tray of chocolates then had a couple of biscuits and a mug of tea for supper, she will nor starve in here. I left at ten to eight, she was still awake but her speech had become poorer and it seemed likely she would soon be asleep. On the way home I went to Sainsbury's in Crayford. When I got home I found I did not have my door keys. Euan had fallen asleep and did not answer the door. Fearing that I had dropped them as a result of efforts to hold my jeans up, I retraced my steps to Sainsbury's and the Centre. Arriving at the Centre at a quarter past nine, I was surprised to find Isobel still awake and watching television. I did not find the keys and after chatting for a few minutes I went home via Iona's house, borrowing her keys. I found I had left my keys in the house. If I had not accidentally returned to the Centre I would have assumed Isobel was asleep long before 9.15pm.