As might have been expected, the promised snow entirely failed to materialise overnight.

Carol (from across the road) went in just before 1pm. She had not seen Isobel since before she went to the Centre. She found some difficulty, as might be expected, in following Isobel's conversation, but Isobel was happy enough. Isobel was watching a film on television and Carol asked her if she was following it, to which Isobel replied "No, not really"! Carol stayed for over an hour, although there were long spells when Isobel just watched television. Carol fed Isobel a few grapes before she left, noting that the red grapes seemed to make her cough a little but the white ones did not.

I went in at just after 5pm. I fed Isobel her tea of cheese salad followed by trifle and cream, with a mug of tea. Isobel could recall that she had a visitor earlier, could vaguely describe Carol but could not remember her name. We discussed the poetry of John Betjeman, Isobel had a vague memory of him. I fed Isobel a few red grapes (not yet having spoken to Carol about her earlier visit); she did cough slightly for the only time in my visit. I read a few pages of "I capture the castle" to Isobel, this is the book left for her by Jessica. Overall I thought she was about the same as yesterday. I went home at twenty to seven, noting a significant thaw was underway.