Diary - NaPoWriMo2023 #24

I did have a plan
for my day off;
waking round midday
and an afternoon
mostly spent painting
elegant wargaming miniatures.

Though fate
thought otherwise;
no rest for the wicked -
an earlier than liked start
to help lug and fill up
salt in the water softener.
With a dash of salty irritation
at being
underestimated in my strength,
and due to
having been awake up until 5am.

A sub-par nap and some shut eye,
and some free time,
before helping move video tapes
and stuff on shelves.
So that Grandma can make her triumphal return
from hospital,
with some delusion as unwelcome entourage;
the old girl destined
to live to One Hundred
even if her mind finally flags
a little before then.

And so,
it is after 9,
and the models still lay
as they were yesterday;
still in paint pending
and awaiting me
when I can make the time
and focus on the
Aspects of War.
With yet more in the post to come...