Just wish I could find a pre-emptive
strategy for these sudden onset bouts of painful exhaustion, it’s not as if I
can lay the blame on over exertion. I’d had a quite lazy restful day today, apart
from an unduly early morning waking, from my fitful slumbers, as the hound
expressed an urgent need to utilize the garden! I was able to get back into bed
within ten minutes but, it seemed like an eternity before I was able to resume
my slumbers. When I did finally emerge from the duvet realm there seemed little
option other than a very restful day.
Around 18.30 hours, a painful
tiredness enveloped me; it’s almost impossible to determine which came first,
the weary tiredness or the pains in upper limbs and feet. A not unfamiliar
gnawing discomfort from the armpits served to induce feelings of nausea and a
few shouted expletives caught the snoozing hound quite unawares, although he
did quite quickly proffer me his paw and snuggled up closer to me. The
discomfort dissipated, of its own volition(?) as I listened to Sibelius ‘The
Wood Nymph’, at the opening of tonight’s Prom broadcast on BBC4 before I was
fully awakened by the vocal dexterity of soprano Anu Komsi in a newly
commissioned piece, from Laura Poe, ‘Laulut maaseudulta’. The soprano’s performance reminded me of the
excitement I felt when I first discovered Cathy Berberian’s vocal gymnastics in
the 1960s. A transformative moment.
