7.03.2025 A bad case of the sparklies.

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 Friday 7th 

 Up at 5.45 after another difficult night. Hours of weird dreams about plumbing systems that don't exist. I may be feeling a little better today but can't face breakfast. My lower back is killing me. I may still go back to bed.

 7.35 Another hour in bed. No breakfast. I'll concentrate on fluids. Water, tepid tea, tepid black coffee.

 Parts of Denmark are promised 15C/59F at the weekend. Slightly cooler here with 14C. The earliest spring day in 257 years.

 10.15 Been back to bed again. Slept soundly. Woken by messages on my phone.         

 11.00 I have just been chatting. I must be better. I can type normally again. In the loosest possible sense of normal. Back to the fluids. Coffee and a glass of water. I took a couple of over the counter pain killers. I might force down a digestive biscuit. Just to keep them company.

 Bright sunshine. The greenhouse is warming the house. Albeit slowly.

 12.40 It is that time. I should be making lunch but [?] I am dripping with sweat. It is 20C or 69F in the room. Thanks to the greenhouse door being open to the kitchen and living room. Via the small intervening hall. What difference does it make if I am sweating? I'll decorate my rolls with my assorted spreads and see how I get on. My brain is still not working properly yet. I keep missing out words in sentences.

 13.10 56.5F/13.6C. It is supposed to be warmest at 16.00. Rolls consumed. Sweat reducing. 

 17.15 Woke from another nap and closed the greenhouse door. 

 Most peculiar! I had a very strange reaction to something I have taken or eaten. I was seeing peculiar sparkles on things and sounds were greatly magnified. It sounded as it was very windy but wasn't. I went to bed to avoid it getting any worse. 

 Fortunately [?] I woke with the flu in retreat but no more hallucinations. I have never taken any drugs so cannot compare it to anything. The curried sild? Though it doesn't usually have that effect. Out of date, over the counter, pain killers? 😬

 19.00 My appetite seemed back to normal earlier but now it's not. I might try something tasty on toast. Cheese would do it. Nah. Too much work!

 I haven't lit the stove all day. Thanks to the greenhouse it reached 70F/21C and has remained there until now. I feel warm enough without being so sweaty. It was ridiculous earlier! Like a warm bath with my clothes on.

 Dinner was marmalade on toast. 2 rounds. I have run out of coffee mugs. Most of which have been rinsed several times for re-use. As I don't take milk in my tea. Nor usually in my black coffee. They are all hideously stained with tannin. I am not strong enough to do any washing up yet. 

 10.00 I can't stay awake any longer. I feel headachy, my neck aches to. Still 68F/20C in the room. So I didn't bother to light the stove. I'll be sleeping in my clothes anyway.

  

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