"If it was a strain, I wouldn't do it.
I didn't feel strain; I didn't feel anything.
With all this strain, I am beginning to think I can no longer be the president".
I've had readers become furious because a strain I found sedative kept them awake all night".
As the system is placed under increasing strain I expect that the situation will only get worse.
"Under strain," I wrote a minute or two later, "rubbing eyes, finger to eyebrow, hand splayed to cheek, timbre of voice changed".
But it comes at a price of constant drama and financial strain: "I have to work 20 days a week to make my bills," he says.
But there were two unknown variables here: the pre-made malt extract and the yeast strain I used, both of them for the first time.
By the time the programme finishes with a spoof-like update on the patients – Colleen's lump has been removed, Sean's potentially fatal swollen leg turned out to be muscle strain – I have figured out the potential of this excruciating show.
But practices are under such strain I don't think they have time to do that at the moment," she said.
While fighting my way back to fitness from this groin strain I have had, I have taken up Bikram yoga.
