21.08.2025 Sick note.

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  Thursday 21st 47F/8.3C [6.45]  Bright but cloudy start. Expected to be cloudier, cooler and windier.

 Up at 6.00 after a quiet night. Feeling a bit dizzy. Hopefully a walk will help.

 Trimming back the overgrown shrubs and trees. The former flower bed, to the left, is swamped with weeds.

 It didn't help so I went back to bed for half an hour. That didn't help either. I may have mild food poisoning. Which is a nuisance while I have a visitor. I can't drive us onto the next planned outing.

 We sat and reminisced for most of the morning while I rested. I had a nap but it offered no patent improvement.

 Rolls for lunch. 

 Then out to the garden. Trimming back the black elder, cotoneaster salicifolia, hawthorn, et al. 

 My sister suggested I cut down the flower bed and expand the lawn. A solution which had not occurred to me. It needs no hiding the fact that I lack the skill, knowledge and determination. To make a go of a dedicated flower bed. I am not a gardener.

 So I used the hedge clipper to lower the area to a more manageable height. I managed to save the four buddleias. Which were in flower but completely swamped in weeds. Mostly rosebay willowherb. 

 Dinner was goulash soup and boiled potatoes. Which made a change from my usual diet and was very pleasant. I still feel a little dizzy and headachy. Hopefully I shall be back to normal tomorrow.

  

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