Thursday 16th March - Living on the edge of chaos, and 'niksen'

The past 24 hours have been a bit fraught...

I discovered yesterday in one calendar that I had a zoom hospital appointment for 11am today which wasn't in any other calendars. At least is was a zoom appointment; getting to hospital appointments in London is a bit of a logistical exercise and having a couple of days to find suitable parking, decide travel times and routes and round up paperwork is easier with a week's notice at least.

So why so many calendars? Oh well, a digital calendar is great - I can see it on my phone and my laptop and my tablet and Himself can see it on his phone too... but there is something solid and satisfying about a pen and paper diary that you can add notes to and flick through and stick notes in and mark up with a high lighter or even an underline here and there... so, I live dangerously, on the edge of chaos, with the paper diary and the digital diary, both equally brilliant and both equally problematic...

It's usually fine, until, days like yesterday, for example.

Yesterday was also further complicated by my father ringing me up about a letter requiring him to attend a hospital appointment locally tomorrow afternoon. So, I fell to reviewing Friday afternoon - one piano lesson, one group zoom - and on reflection cancelled both. Just in case everything ran late.

This morning, my father's appointment was cancelled, for good reasons, I have to add, and so I have unexpectedly found myself with a clear diary for the rest of this afternoon, and for the whole of tomorrow.

Now, because of the events of yesterday and this morning I find myself with a free afternoon (today) and a free day (tomorrow). I could reinstate the piano lesson and the zoom, but instead we shall both indulge in a bit of 'niksen'. There are books about it. Maybe I shall order one and read it, but then, if I was reading, would I be doing 'niksen'?