I’ve had to finally give up and accept that I’m not going to get my surgery next week unless I can shift this cough/bad chest that always appears at times of direst stress. When I’m in these situations, I get a cough that is so bad that I find myself unable to draw breath sometimes and I wheeze like a steam engine, with my chest feeling like someone has put a pile of bricks on it. People crack jokes about giving up the 40 a day but that’s not the problem. When I get one of these coughs I always think I know best and that it will go away if I keep ignoring it and pressing on. Of course all that does is make it worse so I end up incapacitated anyway, it’s just a matter of how long it is before I do the sensible thing and have a break to shake it off.

So, after getting out of bed this morning, going off to walk the dogs then getting into huge trouble with DM for pushing myself too far, I have accepted that I need a bit of time to let my body fight this off.

This photo was taken during the dog walk, by balancing the camera on a rock….not rocket science I know and DM posted a very similar shot, taken in the summer only yards away from this but I didn’t know how to do it then. So I suppose that I can claim to have learned something today…..well, two things – look after myself better and how to expose a long-shutter speed daylight photo. That’s something anyway.