Lockdown Diary - Wednesday 13th January 2021

Feeling a bit 'meh' today. Cheesed off that I can't do exercise, seemingly can't do yoga and I have to think before doing most things in case they put undue pressure on my abdomen. Even sitting for too long is bad (which I already knew, for different reasons).  The only risk free thing to do is lie down. Great. Not practical for work and seemingly one step away from permanently lying down. 2021 off to a great start and January isn't even over yet!

Enough of that! I have work to do, so onwards and upwards, carefully!

After work I phoned my 'big' sister for a chat and catch up on life, followed by a video call with a good friend.  It is good to talk to people!

Earlier start to evening, as we try to eat earlier, otherwise pretty much as usual.  One change to tonight, for the first time since my operation I don't take part in putting the bins out. Now that's what I call excitement.

This week's poem is an old favourite of mine from the 16th century, by Sir Thomas Wyatt, titled 'They Flee From Me'

They flee from me that sometime did me seek

With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.

I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,

That now are wild and do not remember

That sometime they put themself in danger

To take bread at my hand; and now they range,

Busily seeking with a continual change.

Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise

Twenty times better; but once in special,

In thin array after a pleasant guise,

When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,

And she me caught in her arms long and small;

Therewithall sweetly did me kiss

And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”

It was no dream: I lay broad waking.

But all is turned thorough my gentleness

Into a strange fashion of forsaking;

And I have leave to go of her goodness,

And she also, to use newfangleness.

But since that I so kindly am served

I would fain know what she hath deserved.

Poem read, time for bed, reading and sleep

Another late discovery from 2020 has been the latest album from Hey Colossus.  The band has been around for a while and their sound has apparently evolved a lot over time (progressive, dare I say?), though until now they've been beneath my radar. Their latest album is called 'Dances/Curses' and from it I've chosen 'Donkey Jaw'

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