Saturday and I wake feeling not so good, so I rest and take my time getting up. I brief breakfast and morning meds before I settle down to a day of sport. There is football, rugby, grand slam tennis and Australian Rules football. I sit and watch it all feeling fatigued and having little or no energy. My family get on with life around me until they go to the theatre in the evening leaving me to order an Indian take away to eat while watching England field two separate teams against New Zealand. It was an unedifying watch and was really no more than watching two teams jog about in the Florida heat. At the end of the day I watch Blade Runner 2049 and go to bed late.
Sunday and I wake up knowing I had a curry the night before, so I take my time getting up having taken my vitals. My blood pressure remains good but the old heart rate is still elevated. By the time I am up my partner is in the garden putting in the new plants she bought yesterday. I eat breakfast and then head for the garden, by which time the garden guy has arrived and is getting ready to mow the grass. My partner redirects the garden guy and soon we are all planting things. I rescue some large pots and plant up the impulse buy dahlias that have been sitting around for a couple of weeks. I also add additional support to my growing purple sunflowers and finally get round to planting the Rudbeckia seed card that a friend sent me. The garden guy empties some pots for me and transplants their contents into a spare area of the garden. So for the next few hours there is three of us working the garden until there is quite a transformation, everything is so much tidier and we have the next phase of flowering in place.
The garden has some spectacular elements to it. Some of the special stuff is purely by accident where plants have been moved to see if they will survive while others have self sown. I take the camera into the garden to see if I can capture some of the sights.
By early afternoon everyone is tired and we pack up the garden tools and tidy away the pots and plants. A final watering to make sure the new plants are settled in and we are finished for the day. My partner and I eat lunch and start to watch the Paris open men’s tennis final during which I start to draft the last couple of days blog. After a combination of tennis and athletics the family the evening meal and I settle down to watch Shades of Blue before finally taking my night meds and going to bed feeling more hopeful for tomorrow given my gardening activity today.
