Deirdre Geraghty

I see that they’re stopping giving puberty blockers to children who wish to change gender. There’s a huge growth in the numbers wanting it and will be the case as long as people treat their boys and girls differently.

This bloody government sells off the post office and now we have to wait days and days to get any mail. The postman came today with a pile of mail including last week’s magazines and one of this week’s. I tried to ask him about the situation but he threw his hands into the air. I suppose I wasn’t the first person to complain.

The postman hasn’t been for a few days and so l still haven’t received my TV Times or my New Statesman which I usually read on a Saturday. I didn’t really know what to do with myself this weekend and ended up watching back to back episodes of something that I had recorded. Hopefully my magazines will arrive today. I suppose it could have been something important.

I have just been watching the guy who is the first to run the length of Africa on television. I cannot run at all anymore or jump. They are both two of the things that I can no longer do as I have grown older. Oh well!

I am feeling a bit rough this morning and will see how I am after breakfast.

I have a lot of things happening today so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that I couldn’t sleep. It will soon be the time that I can start my day starting with breakfast and bath and wash my hair before 7.00. Hopefully I will catch up with sleep tonight and won’t have to get up early on Saturday.

I completely overslept and things to do before my chiropodist arrives a little later. I really feel quite weary.

I didn’t fall asleep until nearly 4.00 so I’m very tired this morning. Hopefully I’ll feel better in a little while.

I had a chat on WhatsApp with my sister in law in Australia around 5.00 this morning which was lovely but then I had difficulty in getting up a little later. But it’s going to be a quiet day today hopefully.

I decided to finish off the bottle of red wine last night so I’m feeling the effects this morning especially as I came downstairs for an hour or so in the middle of the night. I think I will postpone my hair wash until tomorrow!