Another bright frosty winter's day after a fair night's sleep. I woke up clear headed for a change and stayed like that until lunchtime low blood sugar assailed me. Clare cooked pancakes for breakfast, and afterwards I went grocery shopping. On returning I started to feel light headed as my blood sugar dropped, so I made haste to cook some pasta and make a chick pea and mushroom sugo to go with it. Fast food but tasty, and it quickly boosted flagging energy level. While waiting for Kath and Rachel to arrive, I walked in Llandaff Fields for an hour, and spotted a pair of pied wagtails foraging on the footpath but they moved too quickly to photograph. The girls had just arrived when I got home.
After cups of tea and biscuits, Rachel took out her grandpa's 'cello and started playing, I accompanied her on the guitar and Clare or Kath joined in on flute. I rarely feel inclined to pick up the guitar to play on my own, less so since the stroke, but when Rachel started playing, I automatically joined in with her, despite a few errors due to lack of practice for many months. My guitar playing relies on harmonising from memory and I found that my musical memory and ability to recognise things without latency isn't as affected as it is with visual memory, which still works, but is slower. For this, I am most grateful.
We went out for supper to Stefano's and had an excellent early evening meal. The rising 'Wolf' full moon was with us on the way to the restaurant and the way back. We stopped and howled at it, the way we did when the girls were young. When we got home we made more music until it was time for bed, preceded by a foot rub from Rachel. So lovely to be together again.
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