Holiday in the Fall #2 - Day 8

While waiting at the bus stop for the bus to the supermarket this afternoon, the sky varied between azure, grey, and lilac, and the weather flicked between sunshine, light rain, wind, bright sunshine, and moody grey overcastness. I was there for a total of maybe 8 minutes. Mmm, British weather ( Read more... )

Slept reasonably well last night in fact, which is a good thing. Nose very blocked. Decided I was well enough to work but that it wasn't necessarily appropriate for me to go *in* to work, so worked from home ( Read more... )

Had a bit of a better night last night, in that I managed to get *some* sleep. still had a headache though that annoyingly refused to disappear with paracetamol ( Read more... )

Right, so on the instructions for the Olbas Oil it says : "add two to three drops to a tissue and inhale the vapours". And I read this and go - 'but that only works if your nose isn't *so* blocked that you *can* still inhale ( Read more... )

Today has been mostly boring. Fortunately the weather did indeed settle down so clothes washing was hung out to dry ( Read more... )

1) on the way home on Thursday from the reading group I go to, the bus driver on the bus from Ripley looked remarkably like Radovan Karadžić. Very odd ( Read more... )

1) "Researchers tickled 22 young apes and three humans and acoustically analysed the laughing sounds that resulted.". Heh that's one heck of a research project! Though it does make me wonder how they went about advertising for the three humans. "Let us tickle you. It's for a serious scientific case study. Honestly!".

2) We are officially ( Read more... )

been cold today, some icy patches on the pavements. been crisp tho, which has made my brief wander out into the centre of kirkby quite pleasant ( Read more... )

it appears that i have won £70. This all stems from this year's Fantasy Formula 1 competition that a friend of mine organises every year. This time, one of my teams came in 2nd (£50), and another one cam in the designated 'lucky loser' spot of 7th-from-last (£20). Wa-hey!

greebo_cat was feeling a bit low today so i ended up being dragged to the pub by ( Read more... )