Deirdre Geraghty

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!

I really do believe that a certain American is a madman. Really demented. More like a member of the mafia or a conman than a politician. Surely someone can do something – four years of this is quite unthinkable. But I suppose it will take a while yet until the American people sort it out.

They showed on Sky News some of the pieces of Cartier design at the V & A exhibition which, for a change, caught my eye. That’s something that I would like to see more of.

I managed to force myself up this morning as I have things to do. I had been dreaming that I had cancer and had an appointment about it which was important so I didn’t want to leave the dream. Very tired…

I am watching the Prince Harry at the Court of Appeal for security case so he would feel safe at bringing his family to his homeland. It’s a great shame that there is all this bad feeling around this case.