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Ivor’s Daily Gallivant Saturday July 29, 2023 Unable to sleep through the night I got up in the early hours and spent until about 10am looking through the education section on the Diabetes UK website. Then I had a piping hot shower and exhausted crawled off to bed rather than as planned to go the Repair Café at Blackfield church organised by Lucie Mann. In retrospect I should have realised that showering causes me to sleep and had my shower in the middle of the night and slept through, but I didn’t… It was probably just as well I didn’t go out I’m epileptic and one of the triggers for seizures is lack of sleep and if I’d had a fit while I was out I would have been taken to hospital and spent possibly three days there at a cost to the tax payer of £900. (And from a purely selfish prospective it would have been undignified) I decided to spend my day alone- in splendid isolation. And do some housework, cooking and photograph my paintings. Cooking- a vegetable curry made with, onion, garlic, ginger, gamma masala, cumin, broccoli from the cook up, mixed vegetables from the cook up, white cabbage from the cook up, sweet potato, tinned tomatoes, red chilli, mushroom, lemon juice, tomato purée and frozen mixed vegetables with a pinch of salt. I gave my concoction a taste and it was spot on. Despite my good intentions I didn’t do any housework or photograph my paintings. Then I sat around doing nothing. There was an article I read last night that recommended doing nothing as an antidote to stress. Apart from mild frustration with myself it worked.

How I may have saved the taxpayer £900 and preserved my dignity in the process

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