Because of the delay to the flight, BA gave passengers a voucher for refreshments while waiting: I had some nice nosh at Tortas Frontera in Terminal 5.
There was no-one sitting in the seat next to me on the plane! Luxury!!
I managed to catch 2-3 hours sleep during the flight, which is something of a record.
I mean, I still feel like the walking ( Read more... )

Even after what I consider probably counts as A Good Night's Sleep, I feel pretty exhausted today.
Still, after I had packed and checked out of my room and stashed my luggage, i went for a walk around in order to access a light lunch and some coffee,and then went to visit the McCrory Gardens, which are lovely, and should you ever find yourselves in ( Read more... )

That is, my mobile service providers have credited my account with the enormous sum (it literally ran up to 3 figures) drained off by sneaky apps in the fairly short space of time before I realised this was going on and blocked them.
WIN.
Also got A Good Night's Sleep: a bit restless around 6-7 am or so, and then woke up to my phone alarm at 9, ( Read more... )

But I don't think anyone - doctor, physio, masseuse, etc - ever mentioned this to me.
Therapeutic neck pillow.
Dr rdrz will be aware of occasional whinges from this quarter about my neck and shoulder arthritis issues, ongoing.
Last week when partner and I were in Hampstead we went in the craft market and in among the generaly knicknackery there was ( Read more... )

A fun, well, relatively, afternoon in the British Library once I had reconciled myself to the fact that I thought I had ordered a volume of a periodical that the system didn't think I had (silly me, thinking that ordering a date span will bring up the middle year as well as the years at each end: yes, I am interested in a very narrow period of time ( Read more... )

What with the whatever-it-was (food poisoning? gastric virus?) on Sunday, and still feeling crappy on Monday, followed by:
Intense two-day conference (even if I wasn't presenting and I wasn't even bopping up and down asking questions).
And the next day a dentist appointment - checkup, small filling in prospect - which I combined with meeting with ( Read more... )

Dept of things I could really do without: what at first I thought was the alarm clock, but turned out to be the phone, so I guess it was somebody's wake-up call, just not one that was anything to do with me, some time in the middle of the night.
After the adrenaline spike had faded, got back to sleep. I hope the person who needed to get up at that ( Read more... )

Woezery about sex robots in the paper the other day.
Is all this hand-wringing really justified? Vibrators have been around for several decades (please not to invoke the canard concerning Victorian vibrators and hysteria: it's really only since 1970 that their existence became fairly widely known and the actual things effective and available.) ( Read more... )

Have had a link open in tabs for a few days on the grounds that, that is interesting but weird, maybe there's a DW post in that, and then there was another one I saw this morning, and I realised that there is a sort of synergy between the two of them.
Let’s Cure the Disease of Sleeping, which I suspect is written by someone who deals with the ( Read more... )

The researchers concluded that sleep in industrial societies has not been reduced below a level that is normal for most of our species’s evolutionary history.
I file this, pretty much, alongside anything that debunks the assumption that in A State of Nature women begin popping out babies upon menarche and go on popping them out until death or ( Read more... )