6.30 a.m. I have had a very broken night’s sleep. I have woken this morning not exactly feeling on top of the world. The aches and pains are still with me and I feel very tired and weak. Today is the first day since I began Chemotherapy 10 weeks ago, that I have woken up and not felt strong enough to get out and walk Skipper. Never mind, I am now one week in to the last session. It will be homeward sailing from here on I’m sure.

On the positive side, young Chris Callow my boatman has got the fuel pump sorted onboard my boat the Silverburn. Hopefully, I will get a trip round the bay before the end of this week.

As I sit here writing this blog, I can hear all the birds singing their heads off! I wonder why birds never appear to be in a bad mood. I can also hear the traffic trundling along the main Douglas road taking hundreds of folk to work. In a couple of hours, I will be able to hear the children’s shrieks of delight coming from the school playground. Dogs will bark as their owners escort them in to Poulson Park. Nearly all the sounds I hear today through this window will be happy ones. I am reminding myself now, of just how lucky I am to have woken up today in these circumstances. Other folk today will have woken up to gunfire, starvation, or poverty. I simply have a few aches and pains and have woken up yet again in a safe and secure environment. I have been lucky enough to live in one of the most beautiful parts of the World.

Well, there we go folks, when I first woke up this morning I felt a bit grumpy and miserable. With your help I have managed to psyche myself out of it. I probably won’t manage a wander along the Silverburn today. None-the-less, I can go there in my head.

Until tomorrow then, this is Tom Glassey with News at 6.45., not quite on the Silverburn River.