so, in about 8 hours my parents land ( Read more... )

so. did I mention, the recovery process for my op involves lying face down for 45mins out of ever hour. I need to get a doughnut-shaped pillow to help me sleep in that position without suffocating!... how long would you think this will go on for? A couple of hours, a couple of days?... try 2-6 weeks!! I'm hoping that it won't apply to this op, ( Read more... )

I nearly had bad news to report. I had my pre-op tests the other day, at which I also met the anaesthetist. He described the process as totally numbing the eye and giving me so much painlikker that I "probably won't remember a thing"... now, I wasn't really expecting local anaesthetic, where my brain will still realise that people are sticking ( Read more... )

So there was a tickling sensation across my hand as I reached for my cup of liquorice tea, kind of like a giant hairy spider...

luckily it was the cord from my magnifying glass .. that's good, I was wondering where that had gone!

The most used phrase when using Word 2007: "oh for fuck's sake, will you stop doing that ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow is the day. I'm off to the retina specialist to see what (if anything) they can do. This scares me.

Ok, an overdue update! (I have trouble readomg what I'm writing so it's difficult to post at the moment ( Read more... )

the vegetable expedition continues! Tonight I'm doing a rosti with sweet potato, onion and fennel. We haven't gone vegetarian, so I'm marinating some chicken stips in an oriental spice mix of ginger (1 tspn), corriander and turmeric (1/2 tspn), chili, cloves, black pepper (pinch each) and a teaspoon each of black and yellow mustard seeds, all mixed ( Read more... )

apparently I have 6 grey hairs.

Oddly enough, I am happy about this :-)

it was just on the news that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died yesterday, just shy of 90 years old. One of the true greats.


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