- and I will go around being pedantic with it, as my dr rdrz are aware. (e.g. Sid says, actually you could cure syphilis before penicillin, it just took rather a long time and a course of painful injections. Plus, penicillin was not a viable treatment before the early 1940s... I'll shut up now.)
Part of this was being an archivist, which is the ( Read more... )

Last time I traveled abroad: when I went to the conference in Granada in February this year.
Last time I slept in a hotel: Malaga airport in February (the conference accommodation was university lodgings).
Last time I flew in a plane: Coming back from Granada.
Last time I took a train: Returning from Gatwick to Victoria as part of the ( Read more... )

Today's excursion to the shops made me think that if I'd looked at my horoscope it would have had dire warnings concerning queues.
Because, really. REALLY. What was this thing that this thing was?
First I went to Superdrug and I needed to ask to see if they had something at the pharmacy counter, and there was already a queue, and only one person ( Read more... )

A quiet morning wandering around Valletta, as we had tickets for the Hypogeum, which partner had been forethoughtful to book in advance, as they only allow a few people in at a time, for conservation reasons (and space considerations), with timed entry.
And the guidebook told us that there were frequent buses and it was not far from central ( Read more... )

Today we made the trip to the other major island in the Maltese archipelago, Gozo, allegedly the island upon which the nymph Calypso entrapped Ulysses for 10 years.
While the actual ferry trip is quite short, it departs from the opposite end of the island to Valletta, necessitating a somewhat lengthy bus journey to the terminal.
Since our time was ( Read more... )

Some problems with finding what was supposed to be the very near at hand and easy to find ferry terminal to cross the harbour - road works in the way - took a bus to Sliema instead, wandered around, failed to find a viable route to the beach - construction works ...
But did succeed in finding the terminal for tbe ferry back, and it did, in fact, ( Read more... )

To Perth and back.
Various transportation glitches along the way plus misleading info on opening times...
Saw some sights, back now.
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Glasses
What I have worn since I was 8 or so years old for myopia + astigmatism. There was a period - a decade or so? - during which I wore contact lenses, first the hard sort and then the soft ones. I think this was either just before the extended-wear ones had come in or they were only just becoming a thing, because these were the ones that had to ( Read more... )

That I didn't manage anything that could be considered a proper post yesterday, thus breaking a run that previously was only broken by the fact of being on a train from Vancouver to Toronto without wifi or phone signal, some years ago.
I had A Thing on yesterday which involved giving a presentation on some archives, which I realised I had to do ( Read more... )

Does this, my dearios, not sound like the setup for a 1970s dystopian novel: Rubbed out: the riddle of Love Island (scroll down): [L]ist of villa rules... no books or magazines, no more than two drinks per evening, no being naked (I don’t know how that can possibly be enforced, seeing that the show is pretty much a celebration of the human body and ( Read more... )