Yesterday my Dixons vouchers arrived, so I decided not to buy a 20" Apple monitor, opting instead for a Canon 350D digital SLR camera. Call it an impulse buy ( Read more... )

I'm so happy.

"I start to get suspicious when so many good things happen."

-Yup, sure enough. My left ear is all mad, bad and about as angry as an angry baboon. My preferred treatment under the circumstances is to hide in a dark room until better. Arghh.

Kat has already given an excellent account of the holiday, so I won't sit and repeat it. Here's one or two photos, though.

Kat and Loch Linnhe from Fort William, Mon 19/09/05.



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Feels like an exciting time of year.

Work is all done and dusted. I've met some great people and learnt a lot, but now I feel ready for academic brain-empowerment again ( Read more... )

Well, just so everyone knows, I am now back in Glasgow, and I have to say it is most delightftul to be back.

I'm now in Corriemonachon where, incidently, I don't have phone reception ( Read more... )

I've made it out of hospital still in one piece :)

I'm so relieved it's over- I've far too many memories of general anaesthetics and their general unpleasantness. They went for a vein in my wrist this time, and then you feel a cold trickle spread up your arm, and then the next thing you know you're being woken and you have the worst hangover known ( Read more... )

Regrettably, I am absconding for a couple of weeks on account of some ear surgery. This will result in me having a banging headache for which I expect much sympathy so all chocolates, liquors, strippers etc should be addressed to Ward 11 in the Western General Hospital ( Read more... )

My ears piss me off. They're an embarassment, and because nobody realises what I put up with I'm just left to deal with feeling awkward and ashamed. They've been so well behaved this summer, and now just before I need to go and demonstrate that I'm fit for surgery I get problems again ( Read more... )