That's a day when you decide just to go with the flow and it comes after a particularly busy day or run of days.
It's a day when you pursue nothing and just let things happen.
Recovery days help to prevent burnout. Of course it's easier to have recovery days if you don't work because they can come at any time and not just weekends.
The strange thing is if you decide you are going to have a recovery day you end up doing much more because there is no pressure to do anything much.
Had a very enjoyable evening at youngest son's birthday party which was a casino evening with roulette and blackjack. Everyone started with $200 which were exchanged for chips (not the edible variety as that would be slightly messy). The fun went on for more than a couple of hours at the end of which the person with the most fun money won a trophy. We largely stuck with blackjack and I was making a healthy profit as time progressed. Such was the profit that I would happily have stopped and walked away. But of course as the evening came towards it's close we began to go all in along with everyone else and ended losing the lot.
Grandson Elliot, who is something of a maths expert at the age of 11, spent the evening calculating odds. The next day he popped round and we did a pub quiz on You Tube where he illustrated the fact that he can pretty much identify every flag in the world. He will soon be replacing me on various quiz teams.
I have only once actually played roulette with real money and that was in Las Vegas. We went on holiday and as a birthday present the boys gave me £20 each with the express instructions of playing roulette with the idea of either trebling it or losing it. If I tripled it I had to stop and pay them back and keep the rest. I did actually double what I had but then lost the lot and so went for a drink instead.
The thing I really remember about the trip to Vegas other than Cirque du Soleil and seeing The Jersey Boys was the heat. It was well over 100 degrees. So what did we do one evening when it was still very hot? We went to see the exploding volcano- an attraction that spewed out flames which made everything even hotter when what we needed was the exploding fridge.
So yesterday we had granddog Reggie staying with us overnight. Took him for a walk and then pootled around until 4.30 when we drove to a Chinese restaurant in Attleborough for a family birthday meal which was very good value, being one of those all you can eat jobs or stuff ups or pig puts as I call them.
And so we face the start of another week and I'm sure there will be plenty to talk about in the coming days.