So the apparent cold - sore scratchy throat, blocked sinuses, stinging eyes, swollen eyelids, constant low-grade headache - hasn't been getting any worse. It hasn't been getting any better, either. And this morning the goat willow started shedding its seeds and I was afflicted by a painful sneezing fit that
just wouldn't stop...
It was at that moment it twigged that perhaps it wasn't a cold after all. So I took a piriton tablet. Half an hour later the worst of the symptoms had eased.
[growl] F*****g
HAYFEVER. I mean, I know I have some susceptibility to it and it's been getting slowly worse over the years, but it's
never been this bad - feels like I have the physical symptoms of 'flu but without the accompanying fuzziness. Heh, well, it
was without the fuzziness until I took the anti-histamine, at which point I felt light-headed and stupidly woozy - which in itself was a bit of a shock because normally pharmaceuticals don't produce side effects (I've been lucky like that).
Not happy. Not happy at
all. Still have blocked and stinging sinuses, sore and swollen eyes, dry, chapped lips and am only firing on a couple of cylinders - though at least the sore throat and headache have gone. But how'm I supposed to work like
this? Not to mention that I really really
loathe taking medication. [growl] Better get some advice tomorrow - I'll pop into the local pharmacy and see what they can suggest, there must be some kind of non-drowsy stuff available, even if it
is expensive. Because the pollen count (oak and rape-seed at the moment, apparently) today has only been moderate -
gods' know what it'll be like when it's high.
... I need to find a supplier of local honey. That usually contains local pollen and should kick-start my immune system (it's worked in the past, anyway). Pity I absolutely can't stand the taste of honey, but I'm sure I can disguise it - like with a hearty dollop of the elderflower brandy-wine... The
Better Food Company have a shop at their
Walled Garden premises out at Wrington, which is roughly in the direction of Congresbury, I think: perhaps we could divert there on the way to the garden centre, Carol? (If you wouldn't mind, that is.)
In other newts:
The Range had a bolt of ice-blue
faux silk (listed at £3.99 per metre, actually sold at £2.99 a metre), so I've bought 4 metres of that for the curtains in Ken's study. Probably a bad idea, colour-wise, as it'll look mucky fairly quickly if it's touched too often, but as Ken pointed out, the cupboard is really only for storage, and he rarely draws the window curtain - it looks out over the garden and no-one can see in anyway. Hoping to make the curtains on Thursday, after I get back from taking Quyn to the vet (the window one at least).
The Range also had some new silk orchids. Both in black zinc pots, both
phalaenopsis, one a single spray of big deep red flowers, the other a shorter double spray of smaller pale pink and white blooms. I was good. I put them both back. Til later, anyway...
Tomorrow I have to go into town to throw cheques at the bank and take the
Vampire Hunter D DVD back to
Forbidden Planet. And try to resist going to
Kathie's Comics, since I always buy something ([sigh] they have the most gorgeous figure of
Sesshoumaru there at the moment, £10, beautifully detailed) and I've already spent too much this week...
Back to
Haadri.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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