Thursday June 15..1.00pm

 Once again, on my own..it's a somewhat lonely life, as I encourage Joan to go out--I know she loves walking around London, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, the Serpentine--or Holland Park, closer to home.

Took these new whopping red painkillers this morning--perhaps they had some effect on dulling the pain. Joan had a zoom call at 10 am, and I spent an hour lying on the bed, never really able to settle in a position that afforded some comfort.

Now I have just discovered that I have a painting app on this computer, but it is very difficult to find my way around in it. I have been sending daily doodles to John and Dan. I do them on my I-pad, and the program is not very sophisticated. I would like to do one using the program on my Mac, but I have a lot of difficulty controlling things in the program. perhaps I will try again later.

In the meantime I will send John a birthday greeting. It's his birthday today. Don't remember much about his birth. I think it was in Georgetown Hospital, but I am not sure.

....4.00 pm, and the day has been eked out with some television. Lovely day, but very hot, and we have nothing in this apartment to cool things down. Perhaps I will go back and try again with this painting program on my Mac.