A great game between Norwich City and West Ham at Upton Park ended in a six-goal thriller
A great game between Norwich City and West Ham at Upton Park ended in a six-goal thriller

A good training day for Sam, retrieving well, and a steady work day for me, comforting Di with regard to her extended bleeding she has suffered before periods since the summer.

Just my journal this evening and then I watched a thrilling game of football on TV where Norwich City drew 3-3 away to West Ham in an open and skilful game.

This must have been one of the best days for training Sam that I have had for a while. During this morning's run, he was obedient and undertook a few water retrieves and then later he was proficient at retrieves with the dummy launcher and from hand into all manner of terrain. To cap it all, he finally managed to leap a high stile that I had been encouraging to do and leapt back again with the dummy soundly in his mouth as well.

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He can nearly hold a trial dummy whilst sitting as well and this will be the final accomplishment in this series of tasks. I got back to the downstairs shower-room project, continuing the task of stripping off the old tile cement from the exposed wall. A short break for coffee and then worked on until lunchtime and the arrival home of Diana. The poor thing had been to the doctors this morning for an internal examination to look for likely causes for the extended bleeding she has suffered before periods since the summer.

The doctor and nurse could find no fibroids or any other apparent cause and she is being considered for a gynaecologists appointment which she also dreads. She came back quite depressed and cold and so I took her over to Brampton Garden Centre for a warm lunch to cheer her up. This evening, I was trying out the tutorial on the new version of Excel 4 that Daniel managed to obtain for me and it seemed to work fine.

I chased up the delivery of Daniel's new motherboard etc and also arranged for the return and repair of a video display adaptor and ordered, in the meantime, a VESA Local Bus model for use instead. Just my journal this evening and then I watched a thrilling game of football on TV where Norwich City drew 3-3 away to West Ham in an open and skilful game.