So last night, post injection, a series of mishaps which I could have done without especially in the initial throes of interferon. Having knocked a pint of fizzy water all over the table, the floor and myself, I later dropped my hot water bottle into the dog's water bowl, tipping it all over the floor. Then I went to bed, leaving my sister's greyhound (who is staying with us at the moment) downstairs as she is a pest and wants to sleep on sofas, beds etc. Half an hour later, I was just falling asleep despite my mum's snoring when 'oww owww, wuff wuff, owwwoooo' from downstairs - on and on. I tried to ignore it but eventually relented, got up, told her to shut up, and went back to bed. Just falling asleep again when, guess what, 'owoooo'. Just the 6 times, every time I was just dropping off, every half hour or so until 2.30am when I decided enough was enough and shoved her unceremoniously in with my mum. Eventually got to sleep probably around 3.30am.

So this morning, I got up around 10.15am to glorious sunshine, went outside and found that because I hadn't opened the plastic greenhouse flap early enough, my carefully nurtured lettuces and basil had fried in the heat. Very sad looking indeed. I watered them and put them in the shade, hoping they would revive themselves, and got on with sowing some courgette seeds. Of course when I put the little pots into the greenhouse, I knocked one of them over spilling the compost and seeds onto the tomatoes below. And when I reached in to rescue them, I snapped off the main flowering head of the tomato plant which was promising to have at least 7 baby tomatoes soon.

It's all the dog's fault - she who has been blissfully sleeping for most of the day. I have to say I have been very strong in resisting the temptation to wake her up repeatedly so she knows what it's like. It's the ribavirin you know...