It’s a Bank Holiday Monday, and a beautiful, warm, sunny day. The two do not occur together very often in the UK. Unfortunately, I’m not in any state to really appreciate it – I’m in a significant amount of pain today, as well as feeling exhausted from my allotment mowing of yesterday. I also have a nasty bronchial cough, which doesn’t help. I seem to have provoked my sciatica (probably by crouching down a fair bit when I was working on the allotment) and I have pain in my lower back, my hips, buttocks, and down the backs of my legs to the top of my feet – suffice to say that I’m not feeling like doing anything at all today. My wife wants to get on with cleaning the outside of the conservatory, and getting the back garden sorted out, so she’s beavering away outside while I’m sitting on the sofa inside, feeling extremely guilty for leaving her to do all the work.
I force myself to take the dog for her two walks, and muster the energy to vacuum downstairs, but that’s about it!