6.06.2026

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 Saturday 6th  Sunny periods but breezy.

 Up at 6,.30 after a reasonable night. Now feeling dizzy. My cough is much more intermittent. My chest hurts from the involuntary exercise of coughing for well over a week! 

I sat on the computer until the room started spinning and then lay down. An hour later the dizziness had receded.

 13.00 I wasn't feeling very well when I went out to the car for the trip into the village.The battery is flat! I'd left the lights on [Again!]  So I had to go shopping by bike. Fortunately I had a bike battery well topped up. Meanwhile, the smart charger has been left running on the car battery. One can but hope that the battery isn't ruined.

 14.00 Back from the shops. I used Sport and Turbo mode to cruise at 30kph going both ways. Sunny, but rather windy. A vast container lorry pulled into the supermarket car park. As I loaded my panniers with the newly purchased essentials. The lorry was delivering goods but without the usual rumble of a big diesel motor. It was strangely silent. I looked up and saw 100% electric printed on the cab. Smart!

 

 

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5.06.2026

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  Friday 5th 55F/13C [6.00] A mixed day of sunny periods and showers. Possibly heavy with thunder. Already windy again. Gusting to 12m/s after lunch. Maximum temperature 17C/63F. Room at 67F/19C. Greenhouse 57F/14C.

 A few stragglers on my late wife's flower bed.

 Up at 5.00 after a difficult night. Coughing bouts have turned wet and sticky again. More sitting up and panting desperately on the edge of the bed. Before trying to get comfortable. While propped up on two pillows.  

 8.30 I managed to sleep for another hour to catch up. I wasn't bothered by coughing until I woke.

 13.00 I just drove into the village to shop. Closed for a bank holiday! 

 I made do with rather tired, sliced wholemeal bread. Which I usually reserve for toast.

 The entire day was spent coughing and trying not to turn inside out. I wanted to do more strimming on the Western Lawn but wasn't up to it.

 Dinner was poached eggs on toast. Rather overdone. It had remained dry all day. With sunny periods.

 

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4.06.2026 Strimming, in the rain!

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  Thursday 4th 59F/15C [7.15] Heavily overcast and windy. Another day with showers. Possibly with thunder. 69F/21C in the room. 60F/15.6C in the greenhouse.

 Up at 5.40 after several earlier coughing bouts. Sitting on the edge of the bed my get my breath back. Then propping myself up on pillows helped me to get back to sleep. Recovery is far too slow for my liking! 

 9.40 First sunshine. Still coughing. I have noticed that I am no longer waking so many times to visit the fire bucket. Also that the pain in my hands and wrists has reduced. This is despite having run out of special prescription Panodil.

 11.10 I have been strimming the Western Lawn. Until it started raining hard and I became so breathless I had to sit down. The grass and dandelions had grown so tall that the mower wouldn't touch it yesterday. It hadn't been cut so far this year. It was riddled with molehills in the spring. Which made the mower too hard for me to push. I'll just have to keep going back until it is manageable.

  Dinner was sausages on bread rolls. I split them to ensure they were cooked right through. I wasn't very hungry and it was quite a struggle to finish them.

 

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