Boxing day! I had another bad night, in spite of self-medicating with cannabis when we went to bed last night. I put it down to being in a strange bed with a heavy quilt on it, meaning that I woke many times in the night, uncomfortable and overheated.
We get up and go downstairs after an extended lie in. Neither of us can face breakfast because we are still digesting Christmas dinner, but we manage some tea/coffee.
A day of lazing around ensues, punctuated with unnecessary food, too many chocolates and a couple of beers. We spend a good portion of time watching Carpool Karaoke on YouTube, which is highly amusing, and round off the afternoon with the Absolutely Fabulous movie, which is quite entertaining (but which could possibly have been funnier if we had been able to get either the subtitles or my ears to work).
I find that my hearing has deteriorated to the point where I could use a hearing aid – either from going to too many gigs, general old age creeping up on me, or as a symptom of my Parkinson’s Disease. I don’t know which of these it is, and nobody else seems to know either – probably a bit of all three!
After the movie, my wife and I gather up our belongings, gifts and dog, and return to our little cottage in Southrepps. In no time at all we have a fire blazing in the woodburner, a film playing on Netflix and a couple of beers poured – a suitably lethargic end to a generally lethargic day.