Wednesday 6^th May, 2020 1530

Well I ploughed through the work on Sunday and finally, finally, emptied my “to be done” folder. I looked forward to two days of doing nothing. Jody also changed her mind about working, instead popping home to get some different clothes. She thinks it's great living here because instead of spending 500¥ a month on taxis for work she can easily take the bus from here at 1¥ a throw.

On Monday night shortly before eight I was stunned to receive two emails of homework shortly before eight! One was last week's assignment and the other contained re-done work by students whose file wouldn't open or they'd done the wrong task.

I thought to hell with that, I would have my two days off! Instead I assessed them earlier today. The best of it is, that was a Friday class and Friday was a holiday – they weren't supposed to do the assignment!!

Yesterday we both went to BHG – the wine lake was rapidly drying up – and last night I baked a strawberry pie for Jody which she has yet to sample. I had two lots and I must say with whipped cream it was damned nice. Tonight I'm going to make sausage rolls for the first time since December, once I've gathered the momentum to go and buy an onion, the ones in BHG yesterday being pretty ropey. They are great standbys for the freezer when I can't be bothered.

We are supposed to get rain this evening, Thursday and Friday, I was beginning to enjoy the warm weather!

Is anyone else getting “Coronavirus Dreams”? My latest was so bizarre and so vivid that unusually I can remember it well. I was in North Korea. That in itself was hardly worthy of note but the reason I was there was because I was in a relationship with Kim Yo-jung! Fatty found out about it and wasn't particularly happy, so with thoughts of being fed to dogs or strafed with anti-aircraft guns, we went on the run. Except we couldn't actually get out of the country. No money, no transport and no food. We were eating grass. That part was probably triggered by seeing a couple of women outside my kitchen pulling up weeds growing from between the paving and saving them to cook at home. Even more strange was the fact that when I awoke I really wanted to nod off again to resume and find out if we lived happily ever after as a couple! I suppose it made a change from homework chasing me down the street......

Time for a shower I think, the sky is darkening.