Hand Of Write

We're working our way through the Atos form. Ailz can't use a pen (it hurts too much) so I'm doing the writing. I have to go very slowly because my normal handwriting is illegible and the only way I can make it legible is to print- which means treating every letter as a discreet entity. If I work at it for more than about ten minutes I start speeding up and joining the letters together- and then I have to stop- right there- and take a break before the script turns into a scrawl.

Nervy

A carton of cream jumps out of the fridge and spreads itself across the floor.

I clean up the cream.

Ailz catches her foot in a cable and my laptop hits the deck.

Ailz says something and I say, "Don't speak to me right now because I don't think I can answer coherently".

I leave her to check that the laptop isn't bust and take a turn round the front garden. I find an apple tree I didn't know was there. I eat an apple.

I hadn't realized I was so close to the edge...