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4/25/2009 SniffWith the alarming news of Mexican flu, today was not the day to suddenly develop a face-filling cold. And it was sudden too – I got in the van to drive dad to Plymouth with only a mild sniffle. By the time we’d got there (which was a feat in itself – I only nearly hit one wall which is an improvement on the last attempt at driving where I went into reverse at a roundabout…) and eaten a breakfast I couldn’t keep my eyes open for soreness, wanted to stuff tissues up my nostrils and generally longed lie down under a duvet. Now we all know that I’m the dramatic sort and so it won’t surprise you to find that I spent five minutes indulging the idea that someone from Mexico had gotten on my flight on Friday and had infected us all… An interesting discussion answering “Why is snot green”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,,-8250,00.html
4/12/2009 You can’t beat a bit of hardhat sureHappy Easter! It wasn’t so happy for my neighbour downstairs though. I was up about about 5.20am and out of the flat an hour later. Only I forgot that other people would have still been asleep. (I mean, I was up the entire night on Friday doing my assignment last minute – was due to be posted by midday Saturday…oops! - and was quite surprised who was up in the building at gone 5am) I got downstairs this morning only to come face-to-face with the neighbour that lives under my kitchen. Well, not literally under my kitchen (she’d have to be very flat to be living there) but her tiny studio flat is directly below my kitchen. (Cast your mind back to the entry several years back when I had the water leak that came through her light fittings. THAT neighbour). Anyways, her flat has a door directly onto the car park and there she was, standing, glaring at my dad and step-mum who were sitting in a silent car. She had a right grumble to me and I left. Only I felt terrible all day that I woke her up and the fact I sort of shrugged in a “I’m not too bothered, I’m hardly here anyway, gotta go” way probably peed her off even more than actually being woken up. Well that would have miffed me more anyways. So I just put a card through her door tonight apologising and promising to be more mindful of my neighbours if I ever see that ridiculous time of the morning ever again. We went down to Porthcurno today to the telegraph museum. Don’t laugh ok? I really wanted to go there. And it was jolly fascinating. There were 14 underwater telegraph cables starting/terminating there in the end. Ok so you’re probably yawning now so I’ll not rave any further. But I will say that one of the highlights of the day was discovering that in their education area they had a dressing-up corner… and, since there were no other visitors at opening time I simply HAD to try on an outfit…. Hahaha!!! And then, of course, a hardhat was soon to follow…. You can’t beat a bit of hardhat sure. Very fetching indeed. We went a bit further round the coast and ended up at Lands End. I’ve never been there before and the landscape is utterly stunning. Had to have a photo outside the First and Last Refreshment House In England of course…. But now my phone is doing very strange things. It suddenly decided that it’s in GMT+2. So it’s an hour fast – and if I go to change it the phone doesn’t like it because it turns off the automatic network updates. Er, I’d say that the network is pretty wrong if it thinks I’m in France. I wonder if anyone else is having trouble with Orange. I’m getting text messages hours/days late. NOT happy. Right. It’s Sunday evening and the fantastic “ooo don’t have to get up for work tomorrow!” feeling has arrived so I’m off to celebrate with a nice glass of red and some Wensleydale and Cranberry cheese. Yum. Happy Easter!
4/6/2009 SpookedOk I’m spooked. I’m just sat in bed watching something on five.tv and suddenly my shower starts to run. Not just a drip, or a trickle, but a full on flow… for quite a time. It’s been turned off for a good 12 hours so wouldn’t any excess water already have flowed out by now? Or perhaps it’s a ghost…… woooooooooooo <in ghostie wooing stylie>. Although I’m easily scared. I swear there was someone down the side of the flat on Thursday night. Again, I was in bed, when the security light came on. That’s unusual as the side of the building is a pain to get to so someone would have to have been up to no good. (All it is is a pathway down the side of the building, blocked by a gate, nothing else to see…. just windows to peer through). So I ended up stalking around the flat with a torch in one hand and my phone in the other wondering what to do, hearing the crunch of the gravel path. I was too much of a wimp to open the blinds in case there had of been someone there peering right back at me. In the end I just paced around declaring “oooo what do I do?” to the darkness until the crunching noises went away. What a total wuss. What should I have done though? Gone out and confronted them in my stripy PJs, dressing gown and slippers armed with the nearest weapon-like item (a pair of hair straighteners)? Hardly. There’s not a lot you can do with cold straighteners to be honest.
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But, to be fair, it wasn’t. It was shut!!! We traipsed all the way there for a nice cup of tea and it was shut – it wasn’t even occupied! Grr to shut First and Last Refreshment Houses in England. But one must ‘Hurrah’ for today
was the first day of the year that my flipflops came out of the cupboard. It was lovely mooching around in the sun. The only downside was that I did see lots of couples smooching on benches and it make me feel utterly single. I did catch myself pouting and muttering to myself “I want to snog on a bench with the love of my life grumble grumble” but I found the craft hut and busied myself in there fast before I considered what a tragic spinster I am becoming! Haha!
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