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I've been feeling like I've been staving off illness for a week, but stayed very active and things have been a little bit full on. Today's personal training session seemed to be going OK, but when I laid down to do one of the easier exercises I got a bit dizzy. This occasionally happens, especially when I am tired, but this time my head was spinning a bit. I stood up and staggered to the bench to sit down. It might have been a recurrence of my benign positional vertigo (though it didn't feel quite the same) but would surely pass quickly. We moved across to do some work on one of the weight machines and I again stumbled and that was the end of the session. I got out 20 minutes early. I should fake this every week.
But it was slightly concerning as I was dizzy as I walked home and the dizziness wasn't going away. The kids have both been ill this week and Ernie was off school today and we've had very interrupted sleep so I hoped it was just exhaustion.
In any case I didn't have much choice but to go back to bed and I slept for a couple of hours. When I woke up I wasn't so dizzy any more, but my head felt a bit wobbly. It was a reminder to take it a little bit easy and not push myself too hard. I don't want my quest to stay alive as long as possible to kill me.
It was strange though. I can't remember a dizziness like this. The benign positional vertigo was more extreme but it didn't last as long.
I felt just about well enough to go out to see Wonka with the family tonight. Though regrettably when I booked on Tuesday I had bought those immersive 4D seats which move around and supposedly spray you with water (though ours just puffed smelly air at us) and I wasn't really in the mood to be jolted around in a way that felt quite superfluous to the action. I enjoyed the film and seeing the cream of UK comedy talent popping up in cameos, whilst obviously full of resentment that I didn't get to play a man whose face had gone green from poisoned chocolate.
A couple of teenagers were sitting next to us and chatting throughout, but I didn't feel I could chastise them in case they stabbed me, but also because I knew our kids would talk too. Just as the film was ending a family trudged noisily up the stairs with their phone shining brightly, looking for their seats. It turned out that they thought they were sitting in our seats. I knew we were in the right seats, so either they were in the wrong screen or had turned up too early for the next showing. Luckily they didn't start insisting we moved and sat in the seats next to ours which were free. I tried to tell them that they were in the wrong place or the wrong time but they didn't listen and so if they were about to see Wonka they got to watch the last ten minutes and spoil any small surprises. It was strange that they didn't realise. And they stayed in the screen and moved into our seats when the film ended (though I suspect they would get kicked out when the cleaners came in).
It was hard to get immersed in the movie with chatter and interruptions and my seat jolting around, but there was lots to enjoy in the film, though I didn't think it was quite as brilliant as the reviews suggested. But still well worth seeing, if the denouement wasn't quite as artful as Paddington 2 (though still pretty epic). Simon Farnaby had the funniest part, which is only right, given he co-wrote it.
