Spent yesterday shopping, getting in food for when the family – 1 Son, 2 Daughters, 1 (honourary) Son-in-Law – arrive on Sunday. Got home, knackered. Went to the garage to put stuff away in the freezer, turned around and tripped over the wood-chopping block. Went cartwheeling, landed with a crunch in front of the coal […]
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….but only for a while. I’m so busy this week (getting the 2007 Elfin Diary done, getting the next Transit out in time for Yule, getting my computer sorted etc.) that I’m not likely to have any time left for messing about on the internet. I’ll still be checking emails, but that’s all for the […]
Went to see the hospital cardio specialist today – he says I may not have angina after all. My heart is fine, my blood pressure’s exactly what it should be, my blood tests OK, I’m not getting typical angina symptoms of chest pains (just the pains in one arm, which he didn’t see as significant.) […]
The Minotaur by Barbara Vine I have been a long-time fan of Barbara Vine (who also writes as Ruth Rendell). Her novels deal with mytseries and secrets and the dark things that hide behind surbuban faces – especially English suburban faces. They often aren’t entirely successful; in particular, she has constant problems making her working-class […]
From SchNews Just when you thought it could get no worse, Neo Labour goes nuclear. The whispering campaign around the push for nuclear power has been gaining momentum since last year. Until then Britain’s nuclear programme seemed to have been largely written off as the costly and dangerous failure it was. Nobody even knows how […]
I’m going to be a granny. For the third time. No. 3 Daughter has just rung with the news. The big day is next June. It doesn’t sound like it, but yes, I’m happy!
Up here in the wilds we are not immune from modern progress. Castle Douglas is getting a Tesco’s supermarket; planning permission was granted in spite of strong local opposition and accusations of malpractice. So from next year we fully expect to see the many vibrant local shops and town centre businesses start closing down, and […]
…for a while. Won’t bore you with my problems, though. I haven’t heard back from Doc G about my blood test. He said he contact me only if there was a problem; that was 10 days ago, so I can probably assume that there is no problem and that my tiredness is due to my […]
…is the transit that’s hitting me now. Well, ‘thumping’ is probably more exact. I have never felt so tired, so bone-weary as I do right now. The tiredeness has been building up up for weeks; my anigina has also been getting worse. To the point where doing simple household activites like sweeping the kitchen floor […]
…I’m back online. Computer problems, as usual – a duff memory stick, to be precise. But it gave me to chance to have a satisfyingly butt-kicking telephone conversation with the shop who sold it to me three months ago. The man actually tried to wriggle out of it with some lame excuse about diagnostic software […]