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Starting to feel a lot better. Actually I woke up late this morning and felt really awful again. In pain and with a raw head. But I've got better as the day's gone on. I don't know why but I suddenly came over very cold yesterday evening and just thought I was probably sickening for another cold. Then when I woke up this morning feeling ill I thought things were really going to get bad again. But I seem to be getting better again. I've found it difficult to chat at times while I've been out because the rawness seemed to have slowed my reactions down a bit but that didn't stop me.


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Still never mind


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Twirls

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The Woolly Lemuurie of John Cleese

http://www.janegoodall.ch/Avahi_JGI_E.pdf


Can take a while to load because of photos if you've dial up

A few minutes in fact.

Chat

Is a very different medium from posting on the boards. It is much easier to discuss things and people can put there point of view in a discussion.It's much more like a conversation. It was cool.


I've woken up a bit muzzy again this morning but then everyday will be different. I'm going out early to do some food shopping and then I've got something else to go and see to. I know they'll've been worried about me because I haven't been around for a while, mainly because of this illness. Takes paper to give address etc.

Just one lemuure

http://photos.wildmadagascar.org/images/lepilemur20-21_0097.shtml

Feeling heaps and heaps better

Feel much better though I'm not well and won't be for sometime. But the day's been ok. Mainly because I went to see someone I'd met who works here to give them my e mail address and to get theirs because I'm leaving soon. They'll be leaving soon after too and going home which is a long way away. They want me to visit soon and they want to show me round cause I've never been to their country.

I was worried on my way there that I'd missed her because she's leaving the job sometime before she leaves the country and I couldn't remember when she said she'd be going. I just thought that I'd never let this happen again. I'd been reticent because of this wall I have built up and I wondered if I'd missed her because of it. I felt so sad which means the wall has been chipped away a lot. I've let down some of those defences.

Over the weekend I'd been thinking about someone else who worked there who I said I'd keep in touch with and then lost her phone number after she'd left. I was also nervous about meeting up as friends away from her work which is why I'd left it and then eventually lost the number. I felt really sad about this too.


Who should be there. I walked in and just could not believe it. She was there. No problems she just came over and hugged me and hugged me. And I just hugged her back. No problems like there used to be with the problems I had adjusting. I was just so pleased to see her. Explained what had happened and she said there were no problems and gave me her phone number again. Just talked and talked. Said how wonderful it was to see me. (How lovely I am. etc etc )(Ermmmmmmmmmmmm). Said much the same back without thinking because it was just so amazing to see her there in front of me when I thought I'd never see her again. It seems to be a cultural difference to be so open in this way and say things like this. I was willing to say the same because I meant it and I'd been so sad at the thought that I would never see her again. Been on my mind over the weekend.

She said that she hoped I'd come in today though she wasn't sure if I was even still around here.

The other woman wasn't there but I should see her soon and I can contact her now anyway so there's no chance that I'll miss her completely.

Have I changed. When did this happen. I did think of them as friends but there was still the problems I had with letting people into my life because of events in my life. And all those ruddy walls that I'd built.

There you go. Something has changed.

I'll meet up before I go, away from her work. And hopefully we'll keep in touch via email after I've gone and that I can occasionally come up, and she can occasionally come down and we can just go out in London for the day. That's what we were planning before so I guess that's how it'll be.

Lemuures at large

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Humph!!

Am up in the early hours of the morning clutching tissues and a bottle of Gaviscon for heartburn. There was no way that I could sleep through my sneezing.

I have a cold. Quelle, quelle, quelle surprize.

I don't feel too bad though. Will listen to a bit of music and then see if sans sneezing I can get some more sleep.

234 or something!!!!!!

234

Only another 16 to go then!!

Feeling better

I'm obviously over the bug that was causing extra problems. Still rather swollen though. Just have to see how it goes now. Been out for a longish walk and felt ok though I was aware of the puffiness. No pain or anything though a bit of discomfort.

Bit limited on blogger at the moment because of you can't link directly to anywhere and that's what I wanted to do.

Naturally!!



This morning I thought it was down completely as everytime I signed in I was just put back to the signing in boxes but then found that if I clicked on one of my history links into my blog after signing in there was no problem.


A quite quiet lemuure signing out.

Chat

Well, I've been chatting in chat. I think it's confused me a bit because I looked at that and thought I've been chatting in cat. I know what I mean.


Nobody else has to at the moment.


Chat is somewhere where you can go and instead of waiting a long time for someone to answer like the forums people talk to you pretty quickly because everyone's there at the same time. If there's no one else there you can just talk to yourself.


Apart from that there's something wrong with blogger. It's done this before and I threatened to go to LiveJournal then because they took away the coloured fonts and other things. They've done it again and I am left speechless. Well, not speechless perhaps but they have removed the linking possibilities AND (I would have prefered to say that in purple) just as bad, colour and different sorts of fonts.


Goodnight,

Lemuure

Neffing

I'm neffing my way around the internet. Neffing up my post counts here.

Neffing here and there. Neff neff Nefertiti neff neff neff.

Oh dear!! ... Poor diet costs the NHS £6 billion a year

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/health/4436232.stm


Six billion pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, then it's obvious that I'm not the only one who's been eating crap, though I may have been a bit more radical in my approach to junk food than most, but even so there is no way I could've cost the NHS anything like 6 billion pounds. (Unless the NHS has an accounting system similar to that of the EU then I suppose I might have reason to worry).


Anyway. I should be a pastaring lemuure this evening. Totally pastared. With baked beans and carrots.

And salad.

It may not be the height of haute cuisine but I will be cooking the pasta myself rather than letting M & S, Sainsbury's or Tesco's do ALL the hard work for me.

See if I can knock an extra ten quid off the NHS bill and improve my health at the same time.

the 'andbag exodus

Lasted about two days. A bit like on another board where a guy said he was going for a while because he had some work that he really needed to do. Think people gave him a day before he'd be back.

I'm glad I went back anyway. It was interesting that when Gothicat prowled in none of the baggers blinked an eye really. Infact where interested enough by the end of the thread to ask her to come back and let them know how she was getting on. But, then that's the baggers for you. And to think I was a bit worried. But the other boards I visit are like that. I guess the bag is the least alternative of them. Well, it's very mainstream generally though there's quite a mixture of people posting there now.

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Not that cryptic really

Just to say

Just to say that this computer is aout eighteen months old, not one of the newer models.

Pinging computers

Another bit of this computer pinged across the room yesterday and I still haven't found it. Adds another thing to the list for Packard Bell. Well hopefully it might come to light before I move. If not it'll be worked into the conversation I have with the nice Packarding Bell people.

I know there was a time when just the mention of the words Packard Bell could drive people to hysterics but fortunately that was a long time ago. We hope. My last computers have been Packard Bells and they've been fine but this one has certainly, shall we say, been interesting in a kind of falling to bits kind of way.

Nocturnal news about nocturnal lemuures

Just for a little while

http://news.bbc.co.uk/


And for when it leaves the front page


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4427160.stm

Cleesei Lemuures

I've googled for this story and can't find anything about it.

Google >>>> Avahi cleesei does not match any documents.

Typical. Just the sort of story you know they'll ignore.

John Cleese has apparently just had a newly discovered type of lemuure named after him. A kind of woolly lemuure now known by some as avahi cleesei.

(Checks date on magazine. Starts to worry after previous strange article. Maybe it's April after all, or maybe months are changeable these days, the seasons certainly are so perhaps people aren't so bothered about getting the month right either)

The paper had got its information from New Scientist. I then realised that while I might have an armful of papers I was obviously missing the New Scientist. It was a while before I got to read about Mr Cleese and his woolly lemuures.

Strangely there is no picture of the lemuure. Just one of Mr Cleese and an obviously fake lemuure.

But there are pictures of other woolly lemuures here

http://photos.wildmadagascar.org/results/Woolly_lemurs.html


John Cleese's site

http://www.thejohncleese.com/


John Cleese and lemuures

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/inthewild/cleese.html




I just hope they don't call all the lemuurelets John.

Codecision

The codecision procedure must be one of the most boring bits of European law to learn. Perhaps it's just as well I'm going through it with a brain that's half asleep.

Quickly returns to Europa's "Codecision Step by Step". I might be feeling better tomorrow.

European Law In A Box

The Law In A Box series is a set of revision cd roms for ...... law. Well, I've just started back with the European law one. I think this must mean that I'm feeling better or something. Not quite sure what really but I suddenly felt interested.


I thought this evening would be spent on internet/chatting on phone/trying to rest some. Well scratch the internet now because that cd rom has suddenly become very interesting for some reason or other.


Factortame here we come.

Dusk

Just got back in. I really love dusk and early evening here around this time of year. I dunno why but it always seems so atmospheric,suppose it could be something to do with the scent of the fallen leaves. I walked back from the station, jacket still buttoned to my bag, wearing my cotton Indian trousers and purple t shirt. There was a wind blowing but it still wasn't cold enough to need a jacket.

My mind is still cocooned a bit by the illness I've had but not so much that I wasn't aware that at past seven in the evening this late in the year I shouldn't be walking home wearing cotton trousers and a t shirt and feeling comfortably warm.

I think I'm getting noticeably better again. Latest cold zapped it seems. This time my muscles were moving back into place on the train but walking back from the station wasn't difficult this time, not like the last time when it was quite difficult to get home. The pain's gone from my spine too and I can't put that down to painkillers because I've only taken one today, a paracetemol and codeine.

Still, see what tomorrow brings. I'm not counting on anything much at the moment. So, I feel a bit better this evening. But as there's been so many ups and downs I'll just wait. Still swollen up but the muscles have gone down again.

Posting

Well,have stayed out of Handbag. Posting up a lot on another couple of boards. One to get access to another part of the board. Suppose I could PM someone to ask if I could start a couple of threads just to post up a lot of stuff. What colour socks do you have on? Updated at least ten times a day.

Computer

I don't use this computer for work or private things. It's falling apart really and I still haven't got the parts I need from Packard Bell to put it back to rights yet. It's working better than it was a while back but it still needs quite a bit of attention. So, I must get that done and a few other bits and pieces that need to be sorted out too.

Not sleeping again though I'll try and get some more rest soon. But I could've sorted the puter out and installed the programmes I need this morning. I feel like sorting it out now. It'll have to wait.

Edited out title of paper

I edited out the title of the paper the previous post was about because I haven't checked it out and it might not be, as I think, burned on my brain for ever.



I am sure that there are plenty of other people who read it too. People, unlike me, who knew what the Beatrice Potter books and Don Quixote are actually about. I actually thought that recommending Beatrice Potter was something to do with some kind of domestication. But beware, if you accidentally get stuck in someone else's house because you've eaten too much to get out again don't expect your wife to go looking for you.


As for Don Quixote I only knew that he went off with his faithful friend and did some windmill jousting somewhere along the line. I thought it was a book about romantic adventuring. Looks at comments at bottom of page linked to in other post and finds out that I was wrong. Lucky I read the Beatrice Potter first and was prepared.

Au revoir Handbag

Just for now.I decided yesterday that I wouldn't be reading the bag for a while cause really I've got other things I've got to get on with and they should be taking up a lot of time. The last two days though I've really been too tired to do anything much. They said that there were going to be ups and downs to getting better and that sure is the way it is. I still feel slightly raw, though that's much better than it was, but bad enough to know that something's still wrong and that I've got to be careful. It's affected my concentration for the last couple of days though I'm sleeping better at last which I'd've thought would've improved my concentration but obviously not. It's like things are changing all the time. My hearing is so much better though it's still affected,that's staying constant, other things come back and then I suppose real tiredness comes in and they're gone again. It was obvious that recovering was going to be very tiring.Guess it's quite a strain physically having to get through it.

(Took what I'd written down incase it just encourages me to go back)

Anyway, won't be reading the board for a while now and hopefully my concentration will soon be back as I've got my Law In A Box cd roms sitting there waiting for work outs and the language things etc etc.


Bye bye 'andbag.


Fer now.

Beatrice Potter

Just before I became really ill I skimmed through an article in The ........................ full of helpful hints showing men and women how to communicate with each other. I think before I go any further I better say that I'm pretty sure that it wasn't this article that pushed me over the edge into meningital type symptoms. "Sadly" I abandoned the paper before finishing this fascinating if bewildering bit of reading.

How to communicate through books with men (if you're a woman), and women (if you're a man). Unfortunately, like all articles like this it only included two genders, if you are otherly gendered, forget it or just read everything .... or nothing.

I can only remember two of the books plus the fact that another one suggested was by Germaine Greer. Probably The Whole Woman but I'm not sure.

Someone thinks Beatrice Potter had it sorted. If you're a man you should buy the complete set of Beatrice Potter books and voila you will be able to understand women far better than you did before you read them. I hadn't read any Beatrice Potter before glancing at this article and was left rather confused as all I could think of was Jemima Puddleduck. When I got in that evening I searched the net for further information.

And came up with this. Free Pottering.

http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm


And read the Tale of Timmy Tiptoes story.


WARNING. I've found that it's been impossible to get the bit of the article I read out of my head completely and it and the Tale Of Timmy Tiptoes keep on resurfacing at odd moments.


Maybe I'm about to start a journey of self discovery. But, then again, possibly not.


One of the other books suggested to read was one of Germaine Greer's books. I think it was The Whole Woman as this would explain feminism to men.


Now, the book I remember put forward for women to read to help them understand men better was Don Quixote.


http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh dear.


Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.


Oh dear.


Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,oh dear,oh dear,oh dear.



I think the article probably had a piece of essential information in it somewhere to help you interpret what you were reading. Not only has my brain been Pottered it has now been Quixoted too. This was obviously an article that had to be read in full. Otherwise you could be taken into a world of complete confusion.


Or maybe it's just me.


Or maybe I missed the bit that said that it was a shame that April 1st is so far away and that we couldn't wait any longer.





Well,that turned out a bit differently than I expected it to.





I've edited out the name of the weekend paper the article appeared in because even though I'm pretty sure which one it was with the length of time gone since I read it there's a chance I might have picked the wrong one.

Could check out down the library but I think I'll just leave the space blank.