under another sun

Still very lethargic today, and wondering if any slight improvement were not to do with taking my statin. My main business of the day, was interviewing Richard Skinner, whose work I really like. He writes fiction, non fiction and poetry and is like a successful version of me. I could learn a lot from him. Lovely guy. Thinking about this, took much of the day. Did a meditation with Lorraine at lunchtime which helped lots. Having done a few of these interviews, it sometimes forget that being an interviewee is quite daunting. Everyone seems to pull it off with aplomb, however.   After the interview was done, at a little after four, we went off to do some shopping together. And posted a jacket Sian had left back to her. Then the health food shop and Morrisons. Shopping with Lorraine always feels like fun. Home and a quiet night, watching a bit of Wimbledon tennis and then The Orville. 

Up early and working on my poetry manuscript. I have had a good couple of days on this, which is very pleasing. Broke off for a cup of tea with Keith and caught up. He is very worried that everything seems so quiet on the work front. Lorraine had to zoom off to the opticians but was back in 25 minutes.  Greg and Dan hard at work and the red dining room, and the blue and white of the kitchen vast improvements. Lorraine and I also chose colours for the hallway, two colours called Jasmine Blush and Autumn Embrace... which is a bold autumnal orange below the dado rail. Colour is not to be shied away from and Lorraine and I are feeling really happy with bold choices. I mooched off to the Brewers the paint shop and got some tester paints (or tasters as Lorraine keeps calling them) and we slapped these onto sheets of paper and held them up in the right places. A bit of light gardening in the afternoon. Soberingly, I heard from the excellent new doctor who recommended I go on low dose of s...