Deirdre Geraghty

I have only just got up and aware that the Pope has died. It doesn’t affect me but I am sorry for all of those it does affect. I suppose it will take up a lot of our screen time.

When I see daft people doing whatever daft thing that they are doing for whatever reason for their daft religion I despair. And quite often there are millions of people doing it which makes me despair even more. I doubt that they will see sense in my lifetime although I do enjoy the giving and sharing of nice food and gifts which goes along with some of it!

Happy Easter or, as a Humanist, happy chocolate day. Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!

My phone went ding which woke me and I saw an item was out for delivery. I came downstairs as quickly as I could and then saw an email that it had been out for delivery since 7.38. Oh dear! I had a quick check and see nothing has been left and no card through the door and Royal Mail are usually pretty good!

I am really looking forward to the long weekend. I am hoping to have a long sleep tonight. There won’t be much to watch over the period and certainly no political programmes but I have quite a lot of things recorded and, of course, always the News.

So I didn’t sleep the night before last and this morning l was so tired I didn’t hear the alarm and I didn’t wake until the time my friend S was coming. Bit of a panic here.

I lay there for hours, annoyingly wide awake and thinking about things that are coming up. My body is tired but my mind is still digesting things, past and present and going through what I need to do. So I have now turned off my alarm, got dressed and back downstairs. Perhaps I will doze a little later.

I was poorly in the night. I felt like I needed to throw up, I had a pain in my left side, my tummy was distended and hard and I felt like I needed to pass wind but couldn’t. I felt the need to drink water which I did slowly for about an hour. Around 4.30 l fell asleep and I have only just forced myself to get up.

I don’t know why my tummy is telling me that it’s so hungry – I had quite a big meal for dinner yesterday. Admittedly it was salad but it included potatoes. And I have just had a blueberry yoghurt. But I still have fruit to eat and another coffee before I take my breakfast things back downstairs to the kitchen. I love Sundays.

I thought that they were talking about dividing Ukraine like they did in Germany in the past. So, we will see, l don’t know what Ukraine would say about it at the moment. I have been checking out Sky News for details since I got up. Maybe I imagined it!