Well, the sore joints and scratchy throat persist – it turns out I have an exciting dollop of tonsillitis. I went to the doctor the other day to get cold and flu medication and got the dizzies in the waiting room. Apparently fainting is a great way to skip the queue – they made an [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 15, 2009
Rainy weekend
This weekend has been lovely, in an exhausted kind of way. Lots of bread-and-butter pudding, and stewed apple and rhubarb, and period drama (this, and this, and my God I need to read the novels now). (There’s a longer parenthesis in there about how the period drama and the pudding are related, and how Paulina [...]
March 5, 2009
A face for radio
I had my first brush with radio this morning; you’d think I’d want to ease in gently, but no, effing Conversation Hour with Sir Gustav Nossal as the other (real) guest. It was slightly intimidating, I got a little tongue-tied, perhaps I shouldn’t have had that third coffee… although I needed it after sleeping 45 [...]
