there came both winds and rain
Wandering round York in the rain today while doing my Christmas shopping and at the same time recovering from a cold was perhaps not the smartest thing I've ever done - except, in my defense, it hadn't been certain that it would rain (is it mitigation to plead that the weather forecast had actually suggested it might snow?) and that it's very hard to manage an umbrella together with shopping bags while working through a street market.
And it's cheating to point out that a sensible person would have taken a small umbrella with her in case of emergencies to use on the way back.
Anyhow, on the principle of kill or cure, I'm almost certainly going to recover from my cold now and get it all clear before Christmas. And I came away from York with a nice pile of goodies, including some sloe brandy, some plum brandy jam, fruit cake and biscuits from Betty's, and less glamorous but more useful new arch supports for my shoes. And a certain amount of growing Christmas spirit. We're nearly there.
(Now if only I could have the fall of the current Government as a Christmas present. I'd like that...)
And it's cheating to point out that a sensible person would have taken a small umbrella with her in case of emergencies to use on the way back.
Anyhow, on the principle of kill or cure, I'm almost certainly going to recover from my cold now and get it all clear before Christmas. And I came away from York with a nice pile of goodies, including some sloe brandy, some plum brandy jam, fruit cake and biscuits from Betty's, and less glamorous but more useful new arch supports for my shoes. And a certain amount of growing Christmas spirit. We're nearly there.
(Now if only I could have the fall of the current Government as a Christmas present. I'd like that...)