Under the weather

Definitely coming down with something or fighting it off, wake feeling tired and achey, not a bad night, woke once or twice to hear heavy rain beating against the window. Which is quite a nice sound from a warm, dry bed, the problem is I want to stay in it, but there are grandchildren to ferry and dogs to walk. After a light breakfast of apricot jam on rye toast and lots of my usual black coffee, my motivation gets me out of the door for ten past eight and to Cherry Burton for twenty past. Sarah is home tomorrow, so today is my last day of taxi duty, and after dropping the kids off at school, go back and just walk the dogs round the village for half an hour. I arrive back home for ten, still feeling rough, so take a couple of paracetemol and meditate for an hour. The first part of the meditation focuses on relaxing the body and the mind, and this helps me differentiate illness from any residual stiffness resulting from swimming or running. Having done this, realise that I have some sort of systemic illness, as the aches and lethargy are widespread and my stomach and bowels are still somewhat squelchy after last Thursdays diarrhoea. In any event it will either get better or worse, and at the moment I am walking wounded, so it could be worse. The second part of the meditation also focuses on the immediate matter in hand, namely getting proper rest and allowing the healing process to take place. Anyway either the meditation or the paracetemol, or perhaps both, helped and I was able to drive into Beverley to meet my son, Andrew for lunch in a little cafe off Dyer Lane. Afterwards, flagging a little, drove home, took some more paracetemol and practised more meditative healing. Collect Louis later and take him to Sarah's house at North Bar and then return home for a quiet night reading AS Byatt's, "The Biographer's Tale". No exercise until my body gives me the OK, but tomorrow I am due to attend my Aunt's funeral in York, and I am looking forward to seeing my surviving cousins, there are eleven of us left, and we are all grandparents. Hope I'm well enough!