Tuesday - I am way behind . I think it is Tuesday I am thinking about . Day 80. As I lay in bed trying to drop off to sleep I felt that my brain was like an onion . Each year, each month a little layer was being peeled off as I quietly forgot what day of the week it was . Lockdown had made things worse . Each day drifts into the next . Today will be the same as yesterday . Tomorrow - tomorrow will be just another day . I have lost the rythym of working . Of waking up on a Tuesday and realising it is work tomorrow . That I need to think about what I will make for tea tomorrow and for Thursday. The habit of staring into the ... read more

Who would have thought it? I woke up expecting to walk on Day 78 but things did not go quite as expected. As always, because I don't sleep that well I woke at 6.15. Glenn quietly said "It's raining " "It's been raining all night " . Half expecting it to be fine enough to walk I got out of bed , walked over to the window peered out through half closed eyes and it was indeed wet on the patio. It was still raining . I was going nowhere yet. No point getting up. Sunday feels a non day . When working Sunday is the day where you rush round to clear everything up, get ready for work next day. For some while for me Sundays have not been the day before work. We lay ... read more

Day 76 - Dear Globecar , I hope you dont mind me writing to you . I read last night that a couple wrote to Laika and they gave them a free Laika motorhome to use for a year . Well Covid 19 is wearing us down and we need something to cheer us up. We have Gabby already. We are seasoned motorhomers . That is if you call 8 years of travelling in our old van and now your wonderful Globecar then we are seasoned and experienced. We know how to drive the van. We now all about Europe and we love our Gabby but a few weeks ago before lockdown we saw your new models and fell in love with the new one. It is a tad longer than Gabby but that is not ... read more

Days 73 and 74 - half way through another week . Had we been on holiday today would have been my first day back at work . I would have donned work clothes, set off and prayed that the no-one had changed the lock at work whilst I had been off . A whole months worth of e-mails would need reading. A months catch up with colleagues . The morning would have passed by very quickly before it would have been time to pop out and see what Chesterfield looked like . Instead Wednesday was another "normal " day of getting up early realising it was hump day and shopping day and working from home day. The weather had changed dramatically. We had had rain overnight . Watering the gardens for us. Greening up the parched ... read more

After a poor nights sleep the night before last I hoped for better last night . My mind was full of coming home things. Disappointment but relief . Relief to have got around London with its traffic . Relief at getting up the M1. All that washing to be done . Before I fell asleep so many thoughts were swirling round my head . I would have been reliving the highlights of the trip we had just completed . I would have lain in the bath for hours soaking up the feeling I had missed by only have showers. I would have enjoyed by simple meal of beans on toast and egg and chips . I would have wandered around the house wondering how I managed in a small but functional kitchen . And then today ... read more