Saturday came, and I am still overwhelmingly tired. Coughed and pulled a muscle in my neck. It's really silly this stuff - am I just getting old? Perhaps, when I was self-employed, I just used to take the time off until I felt like working again (unless I already had contracts, of course, in which case I used to do them even if I could hardly walk, or think, or see....)

'If you're not dead, you're fit to do your act' and other lovely circus sayings:

Work your act;
when you can't work the act, practice;
when you can't practice, sleep.'