Thanks, guys. Actually it's not going too bad. I've just had a rush of shit to the brain and re-potted all my peppers, basil and rosemary seedlings. I'm going to leave my baby lemon trees for another day. They need special care and attention and I've run out of pots in any case.

I've been doing a major rewrite of the Harvest Home website too.

Most years, I've forgotten this day, but for some reason it decided to make itself known this time 'round.

Anyway, I'm not pissed either. A glass or two of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo has taken the edge off the neuralgia.

Time for lunch.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpw49f38Sgg&feature=related

Little Caesar covering "Chain of Fools". Wonderful stuff.

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Not for those of delicate sensibilities:

I was caught short in town today and just as I was starting to get worried, a promising thicket hoved into view further up the road.

I dived in and to my delight it was a ned's drinken den and no-one was home.

"Great!", I thought to myself. "Revenge! This'll get them back for being arseholes on the bus the other day."

So I laid an egg in their nest.

First cuckoo of spring!

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Been snarling at stuff again. When I ask for 50mcg Ethinyl, I mean 50 and not 30. I've given it a go because it came bundled with norethisterone which I've not had before.

Back to the Dianette then.

Gave my new boots their first taste of serious action this afternoon. Across the Campsie Fells. 500 metres up in a leisurely hour and a half and then lord knows how many miles across the top to the trig point. One can see all the way from the Forth bridges to the mountains of Arran.

It rained, of course and the descent was unremittingly steep. It's far worse than going up and my calf muscles are going to need a rest tomorrow.

Bet I haven't lost any weight.

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For all the furious burning of calories yesterday, I'm still 87kg.

Back on the Dianette this morning.

More trouble with the morons and this time it's cereal packets. They live on the bottom shelf in the kitchen cupboard by the window. In days of yore, they'd fit neatly under there, but not any more. I guess it must be supersizing, but the morons who design the cereal packets don't understand that kitchen units don't suddenly grow to accomodate.

Let's hope they don't start designing double-decker buses.

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Plaesed to see that your still on top of the world Reenie.

I had the problem with boxes, in cupbords, sorted it by reoving the packaging tossing the box, works.

Any pics of the view you got yesterday?

Take care lass.

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Photos later TFK, when I've gone through the millions that I took.

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OK, TFK, I managed to chop them down to 0.000174 million of which these are a selection:

Campsie Glen >>
Landscape (1) >>
Airliner on finals for Glasgow Airport >>
Mountains of Arran >>
Landscape (2) >>
Landscape (3) >>
Landscape (4) >>
Auntie Reenie's about to get a soaking >>
Windmills >>
Ben Lomond and weather radar building >>
Glasgow's turn for a soaking >>
Forth Bridges >>
Small heath butterfly >>
Small copper butterfly >>
Campsie Fells and gorse >>
Lennoxtown Church >>
Campsie Fells from Lennoxtown >>

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I went to Paisley today to carry out a reconnaissance for the next blowdown. There are three tower blocks doomed to demolition by controlled implosion early on Sunday 13th July, so my informants tell me.

Paisley statue >>
Paisley town hall >>

Central Paisley is quite the celebration of Victorian civic pride, but Millarston, the area I went to, had me watching my back.
Lovely neighbourhood >>
Death row: The Millarston Three >>

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Lovely photos, Reenie - well, except maybe the ones of Millarston - it's not that they're bad photos or anything, it's just that lovely might not be quite the word

Reenie wrote:

Mountains of Arran >>

Ah, home sweet home. Well, kinda - it'd almost make me feel nostalgic - since I saw the mountains of Arran virtually every day during my school years - if only the town where I grew up wasn't such a shithole!

Dave

Millarston will be lovely in a few weeks' time when those charges go off!

I'm paying very close attention to how they do these things. Meantime, I'm on the lookout for the original architect's plans for The Sun's offices.

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I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow.

The last time I saw her (and indeed on the previous occasion) she warned me about my blood pressure which was on the high side. She had already decided to prescribe me something for it which she warned me I would be taking for the rest of my life.

"No thanks", I said, "we'll find out what's causing the hypertension and deal with that. I'm full to the brim with medicines as it is."

So I went home and looked through the patient information for each of my medicines and found that gabapentin, which I had been taking for a year or more to counter the pain of my neuralgia and sinusitis, was capable of causing hypertension. It is also cruel on the digestion.

So I decided to phase it out. That was three weeks ago. My blood pressure is back to normal. My concentration and awareness have sharpened up but so, of course, has the pain.

Today, I have had a combination of neuralgia, sinusitis and toothache and it's impossible to know which is causing which. I am on a waiting list for a neurologist which may take months. I have no appointments awaiting either for ENT or a dentist. I think I need to see both as well as the neurologist.

It is currently the fashion to overexaggerate matters one-hundred-and-ten percent, so there are no words left adequately to convey the strength of this pain.

I think we'll just settle for "extravagant". I've had a shattered collar-bone in my time and that was far easier to suffer.

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Reenie, I had root canals done when my sinues were at there worse, at least that way I got rid of the tooth acke part. It worked for me.

The other thing is some one said that if you go onto Goats milk and other goats products they will help your sinues a hell of a lot. You have to cut out all the other dairy products, [cow stuff that is]. Give it a try, you have nothing to lose and every thing to gain.

The pics were very good, some lovely country side up there.

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Dairy products increase the production of mucus which exacerbates the situation. I don't have that problem, though. Just as well: I like my cheese and I drink a lot of milk.

I went to the doctor's and she will arrange for me to see an ENT specialist as well as the neurologist. She also gave me some more Dianette that will see me into the middle of September. I have an endo appointment in July so hopefully I'll be on a custom regimen before my smarties run out.

Spent half the afternoon in bed again and now I'm going for an early night.

Why does pain have to be so tiring?

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