I've got a sick note for two weeks due to the irrational nature of a mildly arthritic hip!
The G.P. I saw at the surgery is only working there for 6 months and he's a lovely young man of Indian nationality. He sympathised with me a lot as his mother who is only 54 suffers from a similar complaint :)
I'm going to have a hard job explaining to my managers that i'm really not interested in football...but it's true.