Yes, I know it’s 04.00; I’ve been up for an hour, lurching around the internet in a zombie-like state.<\/p>\n
I guess I’ve been sleeping awkwardly; my body seems to have woken me just so that I can\u00c2\u00a0unknot my back. When I tried to get out of bed the first time my lower lumber region felt\u00c2\u00a0painful and unyielding; I thought I’d slipped a disc. Not so, happily, just as stiff as a board – either due to tension or exposure to cold.<\/p>\n
Having made the effort to walk about a bit to free things up I’ve tried to be productive while I’m awake; emails have been sent to a couple of people (Allan Guthrie – a member of our author’s mailing list – congratulating him on winning the Theakston’s prize; Ian – friend and former colleague – congratulating on him making a massively – good but disconserting – career move; Lesley – old time friend in Docklands – catching up).<\/p>\n
A couple of other emails have been drafted (mostly to Ruth but one to Hellen) but I’m too tired to check them\u00c2\u00a0so they won’t go out\u00c2\u00a0until they can be reviewed.<\/p>\n
I picked up ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’ but realised my brain’s nowhere near awake enough to tackle that.<\/p>\n
And then I did some suppling exercises to try and unknot my spine.<\/p>\n
WTF was I up to in my sleep to acquire a spine-and-muscle- config that resembles a thing as flexible as an oak dining table?<\/p>\n
I hope it was worth it.<\/p>\n
It’s Friday tomorrow (today), and the start of a Bank Holiday weekend; I need to try and leave work as early as I can – Bank Holiday traffic avoidance!<\/p>\n
Saturday needs to be a Vin-schooling, tack cleaning and Beech walking-out-in-hand day.<\/p>\n
On\u00c2\u00a0Sunday Vin and I are doing two combined training classes at Allenshill.<\/p>\n
And on Monday I might be taking The Lovely S down to the Cotswolds to go gliding.<\/p>\n
We’ve also talked about getting film no. 2 of the Bourne series from Blockbuster.<\/p>\n
On the strength of these plans the weekend promises to be a good one.<\/p>\n
And so to bed.<\/p>\n
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