Family worries, and old notebooks

Breakfast with Maureen this morning. Then they drove off to Eastbourne to spend the day in hospital. The hospital, they said was incredibly busy and overstretched. But Pat stable. Very stressful for Lorraine and Maureen, and disorientating for Pat, who fortunately spent much of the afternoon asleep. 

This gave me a bit of a free day of sorts, but I felt anxious and so it was hard to focus.  Therefore I followed Eno's advice about creativity: if in doubt, tidy up. A longish walk in the sunshine this afternoon, which helped.

On my return, feeling a bit better, I began my Meta Book project, subtitled with deliberate pomposity 'being the chronological notebook of notebooks' in which I get all my past notebooks and fillet out anything in them of interest, and in the case of the one I'm just been looking at, what I was thinking about when I was 16 and 17, things like the colour green, stained glass windows, fossils, and spells using the moon, and other unlikely stuff. Girls, which I seem to think I was mainly thinking about, didn't feature much in this notebook.

In the evening I cooked a chicken, and baked potatoes as I had no idea what time Lorraine and Maureen would be back. It was eaten hungrily when then arrived and we went to bed after watching a soothing episode of Bake Off. Maureen again choosing to sleep on the gold sofa.

Below quite bright on my afternoon walk.