Nine Feet Underground

Up early for the cleaner today - she's back into her old habits of getting here before 7 a.m.  On the plus side it does mean I get up and ready much earlier.  Given I've got the afternoon off work as compassionate leave, then it means I can start earlier, get more done. The carer arrives about 30 minutes later, though with the cleaner here our chat is little less engaged than usual, not that I spend every day banging on about the same shit, but walls have ears, as well as sausages and ice creams (different walls, I believe?) Apart from a brief trip to the Post Office to post a message in a bottle, it's work all the way through to lunchtime. The laptop we have is old and used to belong to my wife. It has been upgraded to Windows 10, but is a bit creaky and barely has the grunt (neither CPU nor RAM) to run anything.  Nevertheless I am planning to use it to attend the online funeral, so start it early (it takes about 10 minutes to start) - 2 hours early - to try and reduce t...