My friend and relative, Adam Bell, from the band Foxes! (see Links in the right hand column) is back from a month in India. He had a good time there and a good time last night too when he came round for dinner and saw his new vinyl single for the first time – it was released whilst he was away.

It is a very pretty object and the music is good too so look for Foxes! on Amazon if you want your copy or an upload. What is this! An advert or what! Well, I just can’t help getting enthusiastic or pumping up my blood pressure which seems, incidently, to go up and down in a most mysterious way so I am working at staying calm.

Adam didn’t come home empty handed either, he remembered the tragedy of that builder who stole my favourite pencil and brought me a pack of Indian cedar wood ones, perfect for my scrawly poetry handwriting.

….he gave me a small Indian meditating figure too so I am sitting here in a happy contemplative state. Blood pressure? nope, I am fine. How are you feeling?

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On my last two visits to my doctor, he resumed what last year had been the regular post-brain haemorrhage monitoring of my blood pressure which seems to be going all over the place again these days. Inevitably, even though he is an unusually calm man,  it was high when he took it on both occasions so, today, I am wearing a blood pressure monitoring device which will clock my blood pressure for 24 hours.  It involves wearing a strap around my arm…..

…..it is connected to a monitor attached to my waist.

I have to keep a diary of what I am doing whenever the device goes off. Hmm – I wonder how honest I should be there.

Should I admit to going on a pub-crawl or having immoral thoughts? And if, say, I were to be robbing a bank when the monitor started up, should I write this down on the log and, if I did, would the doctor be bound by patient confidentiality?

I am hoping that I shall have an exiting day so I can fill in as colourful a log as possible. As well as saying what I was doing each time it is activated, I have to say where I was, in what position (!), and
what mood I was in.  Well, let’s see just how shocking I can be during the next 24 hours. Hmm….where shall I start?

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