Back in production!

It’s been an up and down few days.  After a nasty nosebleed Dad is fine again.   While we were doing the ablutions the other morning he told me something then added,  ‘Not a lot of people know that.’  I said he reminded me of Michael Caine.  ‘Oh I remember him,’ said Dad with a little grin. ‘He used to chew bread for our ducks.’    But these flashes of humour are confined to the first hour he’s awake. After breakfast he sleeps for much of the day.    As I have a helper coming in three days a week to cook the lunch I leave ready for Dad then wash up afterwards, once I’ve done my morning stint I’m free.  So though I can only take one day at a time as I never know what I’ll find when I arrive at Dad’s at 8am,  yesterday I decided – New Year, new pattern, and resolved to set aside at least one hour a day to do what I want.   And what I want most is to get back to my book.  Yesterday I made a start. I didn’t just do one hour, I managed four.  I edited the first three chapters and roughed out a scene that needs to be inserted. It was fantastic to be writing again.  When I finished and started to prepare our evening meal I felt as if my nerves had been stroked with velvet.   I’m hoping to do it again this afternoon.