Went shopping today. As we badly need some cereal bowls, I decided to look in Woolworths. Found some bowls, but buying four or five of them looked a bit expensive. There were “50% reductions!” signs all over, but even at half-price, the cost was a bit steep (for me). Then I came across a set […]
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…Coming off verapamil has meant that I can now drink alcohol (fairly moderately). Before, more than one small glass of wine was liable to leave me feeling very ill indeed (something to do with the way the the drug affects the liver’s alcohol processing). We have had Daughter no.3 + husband up for the weekend; […]
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Went around the Co-op this afternoon for a few things. Absorbed in the cleaning section, it took me a few moments to recognise the song that was being played on the store radio – The Rolling Stones with Let’s Spend The Night Together. Instantly I flashed back forty years, to hot, crowded rooms rank with […]
“Live like Ann Frank in a lovely Amsterdam attic”. Entire top floor apartment located just opposite the Anne Frank house. A very nice location, Dam square 5 minutes walk and all the major attractions, restaurants, and night life within walking distance. The Jordaan area is home to many students, artists, and young professionals. This lively […]
…last night. The phone rang, the display showing a mobile number. I picked it up and a mechanical voice started reading out gobbleygook. It sounded like random characters, no recognisable words (apart from what sounded like ‘troll’), with a great many “semi-colon”s and “zero”s. I eventually worked out that somebody was text-messaging our landline. However, […]
Getting off Verapamil wasn’t so easy as it appeared. It’s thankfully gone now, but for the last three days, I had a continual headache; looking at various medical sites, it fitted all the signs of a Tension Headache – slightly stiff neck, runny nose, getting worse through the day. And I’ve been having lots to […]
I’ve taken myself off the Verapamil tablets; six months is long enough to try it out, and it really wasn’t doing me a lot of good. The main problem was that it made me fuzzy-headed all the time; I couldn’t think very well and everything felt ‘flat’ and dull. It was the mental equivalent of […]
I have finally got Linux installed on the old laptop, and am now able to blog from anywhere in the house – at the moment, I am comfortably ensconced on the sofa. Having all but given up on the idea, after having so many failures, I discovered Puppy Linux. This runs on just 94 Meg […]