When adding Ritz crackers to the lovely Mr J’s shopping list, I said that I’d walked past The Ritz yesterday. He’d wanted to know what I’d been up to and I explained that I had run the London 10,000 starting on the Mall and going down The Strand.

I delivered all of the items on the the list back to chez Mr J; then went back out to try and sort out a messed up prescription delivery from his pharmacy. This also required a new prescription for a generic replacement for one item, so it was off to his GP surgery to sort that out. Everything should get delivered tomorrow.

It was a relatively straightforward shop for the lovely Ms Y today which was all quite quick except for the painfully slow service at the Co-Op as the cash only till wasn’t working.

Once back at Chez Ms Y it became clear that there was another job which I’ve done before - defrosting her freezer. It was hard to open the drawers but after hacking off several bergy bits and growlers (bits of iceberg) it was now possible for her carers to get at the tiny portions of food from her freezer.

I’ve probably mentioned Starsky & Hutch in a previous reports from visits to the lovely Ms L. She goes all dewy eyed over pictures of Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) and today we found another in a box.

I was hoping that there might be one of the almost 100 episodes of the 1970s cop drama that might help with untangling headphones (there was a large bag full and Ms L wanted one working pair). Alas there wasn’t.

So after we’d sorted out another box of possessions I unpicked whilst we chatted about her health - she has Motor Neurone Disease with a serious unrelated condition. We cried, we laughed and I sorted out a set of headphones and we lost track of time.