rough days are the norm, for me; what, with my knackered shoulders, hidradenitis suppurativa, migraines and each and every cold and flu that's going around from Sept to June.....good days are a rarity.
and when/if Summer comes, there's the hayfever. you gotta laugh.
supposedly, we're going to be having a bit of a heatwave, this weekend. i'll believe it when i see it: it's currently minus 2 and frosty.
(taken earlier, when it was slightly warmer)
and i'm only up now because i was tired and sore, earlier/last night, and went to bed early. i ended up getting about 6 or 7 hours kip, which is a lot for me, in my state (it's usually 3 or 4) and i felt groggy as hell and my current cold blossomed a bit, leaving me feeling like this when i awoke:
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i gulped a couple of coffees and took an ibuprofen: ahhh.
as you can see, on rough days, i spend my while trying to feel better :biggrin:
sometimes, though, you're on such a lengthy run of roughness that you have to just say, 'feck this' and do something. i usually go out walking with the dog, but that'll depend on how bad i'm feeling. did 8 miles on this trot:
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"gotta top-up the rez!" said Harry.
and for the while of my awakening, as i sit here in the kitchen, i usually watch the birds; it's mostly ravens and magpies who oversee starlings and a few blackbirds. we usually have starlings in our roof, but they gave up nesting earlier on this year and have mostly buggered off (just a couple of pairs nearby). a late freeze, last year, triggered similar, so i was expecting the same, this year. but, i've recently noticed a magpie collecting nesting materials, so it may be that.
our back end also forms part of the boundary for the upland and lowland ravens and there's often squabbles (not to mention the seeing-off of seagulls). i can just sit here and watch it all kicking off; who needs the telly?
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