Midge

7°C, NW wind, getting colder


Red-nose; thanks midge, I even dreamed that I had to pull the sting out after you’d bitten me. My hand is swollen and now the end of my nose. The bright red colour is the best bit. Put me in a darkened room and it’d look like a motor-bike’s brake-light.is on.

This one tastes of Christmas

5°C, northerly, clear


Here is a fine chocolate, there is as much variety in the taste of plain chocolate as there is in Whisky. This one is certainly a single malt: however the Bournville I had in work today wasn’t even an unbranded blend; not sure that stuff even deserves the name ‘chocolate’ to be blunt.
This bar came as a surprise when driving home yesterday- it tastes of Christmas. Each block leaves a cherry-rich soft night-time after-taste. This is the peaty island malt of the chocolate world. Divine and Green & Blacks, you are up against some competition here. I bet many overlook this princely prize with its own-brand name and low price; don’t make that mistake- there are treasures of some depth to experience in this bar.

Now, steal yourself; off you to go the local Co-op to buy some.

Acephalgic migraine

7°C, light winds, Sun. C=62 miles


"real ear-bashing".: Funniest news story of the weekend. Mr Smith, what were the films called? I bet you are looking back on the story and wondering if it was really worthwhile for a hand-shandy.
A Migraine: could this be one, Cycling towards home today in the blazing sunshine- I could see a shimmering lightshow, nice but this one was in my eyes. It was rather like christmas decorations flickering at double speed, or maybe like my eyes recovering from an accidental glance at the sun. I’ve had this at work once or twice; parts of my vision can’t resolve printed words if I am reading. Each time it seems to clear up after half an hour or so. A disturbing event; I was about an hour from home when it started, so I rode faster and faster in case it it became prohibitively bad. I rode fast so I’d be home before the worst happened and I couldn’t see to ride safely.
Incidentally, I have had a dull headache for the last few days. A connection seems possible.

Wanted: new teeth

6°C. Dry, fresh with a light breeze, sun too.


Teeth: I need new ones. Mine are all broken and worn down. The edges of the breaks are quite sharp, you can feel it if you push your tongue against the shattered edges.
iPodding: I have* a pile of 24 CDs to convert in iTunes. It’s going so fast I can’t stop, half way now, can I last* the whole course before spinning out?.
That should say " iHave " and can " iLast "

Getting colder, I may have to switch on the heating tomorrow.

Paucity

20°C, foggy then clear.

Notice the paucity of entries here lately. Blame Flickr, there is more going on there.
Actually there is there is more to it than that. Just about everyone at work is complaining of tiredness, we have a kind of collective jetlag feeling. It’s put down to the new term, and change of routine plus change of season. One curiious suggestion was to do with airt pressure, I’d considered humidity before- but pressure seems more eosoteric. Unfortunately my weather station gadget records pressure trends, but doesn’t give a reading in millibars.
 

Summer cold

24.5°C ( yesterday). Clear & sunny.


Got a summer cold, a very achey snotty affair this one. I have to sleep frequently, and would take a day off school if it weren’t the weekend.
 

Disturbed sight.

22.5°C, sun


Something disturbing happened at work today. I started to ses fliskering bright lights, as if dazzled by the sun. It crept in from the right side of my vision, mostly in my right eye and eventually started to obscure things I was reading. I decided ot make it to the end of the lesson, then just get home as quickly as I could before doing somethign abotu it. My big fear since last year is the detatchd retina. there was no veil of darkenss so that was a fear not worth taking seriously. Oddly, by the time I’d left to get changed, it had cleared.
I wonder if it was a migrane, they can happen with no headache- my mother used to get them.

I’m alive….I’m alive!

-2°C, clear, winter has arrived.


Finally, recovery is here. Yesterday was the first time I felt alive again after over 2 weeks. That, was a long haul.
Now I can get on with it all. Even managed to finish that stubborn level in Company of Heroes. Wow.
this all, of course, means that I have only been cycling once this year. Thus explaining the blog-drought this last month. The rivers are still high.

Still ill

9°C, clear.


Dog experience: imagine playing with your mates in the park, running about and having a generally exciting time. Made more so by no having not seen a particular friend for nearly six months. Eventually you get out of breath and you take a moment to have a little sit down. Moments later your long lost friend decides to pee on you. That’s what happened to my dog this morning, in fact he did it again to the other dog too. You just wouldn’t accept that in social circles would you?
No?- well i suppose you just aren’t as cool as my two poodles are you.
 
They did get a wash-down when we got home.