Tales From The Crypt - Monday 27th September 2021
I awake to the sound of heavy rain: it's dark, I'm still feeling tired and decide to lie-in until 7 a.m. - I take a calculated gamble that the first carer of the day will arrive around then; she worked at the weekend and it's a lousy day, so I reckon she'll have got up later and come here first. My hunch is correct and she arrives at 7-ish and I get up and answer the door to her. We joke about my guess and she's says 'you know me too well!' The yoga teacher has gone away to Morocco for three weeks, so there's no in-person class today. Instead she's recorded three videos - one for each week. It means I can practice at my leisure and at a time that suits me, which means today's practice will be after the lunchtime carers have been. I had to drive to post something so on my way back I checked out a filling station and, as I approached I thought, 'hey! I'm in luck, no queues, maybe people have finally filled their cars, baths and ponds wi...