A Surprising DiscoveryI was still fuzzy with sleep as I opened my eyes to greet dawn's soft light. I rolled over, a tentative move, and stared at the ceiling, my body tight all over. One calf muscle threatened to cramp. I should have stretched the day before, if not at the gym then at least when I had arrived home. Instead, I had downed a bottle of wine as I completed three ghost-writing jobs, cooked up a chorizo and pasta bake and then kicked back to watch Netflix. I threw off my sheet – thankfully dry – and jumped in the shower.
Over a bacon butty breakfast, I checked the local weather. The heat wave was set to continue. The forecast on one weather site predicted the mid-thirties and, if the day before was anything to go by, the temperature would reach even higher in late-afternoon. Inl
