I went in to see Isobel at five o'clock. Isobel had eaten half her bowl of porridge for breakfast and a pot of balanced supplement after. She could not be woken at lunchtime and had not drunk a lot during the day.

I fed her the main course at tea time. She finished this, but needed a lot of drink to help clear her mouth and coughed a lot, covering me and my clothes in fine fragments of food. Despite these problems the eating was fairly rapid. The main course, a beaker of high energy drink and a pot of yogurt were finished by soon after 7pm; as usual the last part had been slow as Isobel tired. Isobel was not able to speak today but listened with apparent interest as I described current events. I read a long section of her book to her before she fell asleep just before 8pm. I cleaned Isobel up and left just after 8pm.