Yum! Sneeze-Wobbly-ouch.

[erastes]

Yum!  Had two things yesterday Ive never had before. we went to the Recruiting Sargeant (which I’ve mentioned before) and I had fish Tapas which is something I’ve not had there before.  It was gorgeous. Crab and cheese bake in a small ramekin, some fishy and sauerkrauty and mustardy thing in a shot glass, tempura prawns with dipping sauce, an oyster, scallops, mackerel, haddock, sardines, smoked salmons and samphire. DELICIOUS. I’d not had scallops or samphire before, and now I know why everyone raves about them.

No writing today. I’ve got a miserable cold – and what’s worse, vertigo with it which is something I’ve not had before (not with a cold, that is.) I assume I caught the cold from someone in Ely. *biffs you infectious lot* as i had a sore throat and a burgeoning thirst on Monday morning. I’m not panicking about the dizziness yet, I’ll see how it goes.

Had to go to my Glucose Tolerance test today – NO chance of driving, what with the eyes AND the vertigo, I’d have crashed in minutes. Was relatively painless – I’ll say one thing for James Paget’s haematology department – they really CAN get blood out of a stone, and although she had to experiment with 3 different needles, she got the requisite blood out (one phial every hour for three hours). Sadly I didn’t get to eat Mars Bars, I had a half litre of Lucozade which was just as nice, as I love that stuff.

Tomorrow I go back for another eye check up. I think they eyes are a BIT improved from last time, but not in the same measure as they were before.

All very dull, I know, but just checking it. I have done 1000 words this week, so I can make my target if I try hard. There’s no point getting depressed that I’ve lost so many weeks writing because of the eyes, all I can do is press on. I' think I can still finish by end of year, and that’s the important thing, because I don’t want to overrun with this one. I have my next project in mind and it’s something I know a lot about, and it will be a lot more FUN than things I’ve written for a while. More sexy, I think, at least. If that’s OK with the literati?  :D

Comments

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

NO SEX. IT IS WRONG! *MWAH*

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I've been feeling rather cold-y the last couple of days so it could be me who you caught your cold off :-( (in case you're going "no, that doesn't work, because surely we've got colds at the same time?", I usually take longer than average to show symptoms / realise that the reason I'm feeling so goddamn tired is because I'm ill. Which turns me into an evil bug-carrying person.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*curses you * runny nose, sore throat and the SNEEZLES!!! Hope you feel better soon, too!

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I'll bet it was germs on the train. (Slightly better than snakes, but more insidious.) I've got some respiratory yuck, too--everyone at the farm market was barking and sneezing, and a few days later I was too. (Passes you glass of orange juice.)

Hope you passed your glucose test. Here's looking at you--single vision preferred!

Fun story would be nice. I still think Hard & Fast is my favorite of your stories because it's so uncharacteristically cheery.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

So much for "vitamin c daily keeps colds away" - I MAINLINE vitamin c. It's most unfair - not that I want dad to get a cold, but I can't remember the last time he ever had ANYTHING wrong with him, not a cold or a sniffle.

The narrator in the one I'm doing at the moment is very cheerful and outre, but the story is a bit psychological so it's getting darker. I think the next one will be about show jumping, set in the 1950s so that will be fun to play with - lots of opportunity for ordinary conflict e.g. things going wrong and non psychological.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

You're the eighth person on my friends-list on LJ to have a cold. I'll probably be the ninth after tomorrow or Friday, as I have to go the library to copy some junk to keep getting prescriptions paid.

All these insta-colds my friends are suffering are NOT necessary, universe, thank you VERY much.

I'm glad your eyes are better. Do they know what the hell caused the problem yet?

I never heard of Lucozade before. What does it taste like?

I'm glad that your nurse really COULD get blood from your veins. I hope it didn't hurt too much.

And ooh, new book! Sexy AND plotty, yes please?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I haven't been as sick as this with a cold for years. sore throat, cough, "crunchy" lungs as they crackle when I breathe, sneezing, running nose, sore eyes, tiredness, no appetite, blocked up ears and head stuffed full of gunk. No fun at ALL. I suppose it's because I spend so much time at home or at Dad's and the first time I go into the public I get germs.

Lucozade, hmm, impossible to describe. It's a glucose drink, and fizzy. The advertising slogan used to be "Lucozade aids recovery" and I'd always have it when I was sick (really a placebo because it's delish, I don't think glucose really helps anyone get better) and they had to change the slogan with the aids epidemic.

I have great fat bruises on both arms, but no - it didn't hurt hardly at all.

I think so. I hope so. I may start it, actually, as I'm just not in the zone for Shamlet. I'm too bloody depressed to write the damned thing, and perhaps the other thing will cheer me up.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Samphire don't do a lot ofr me - maybe Ineed to learn how best to cook it, but I love fish.

Wishing you all the best with the medical adventures. *big hugs*

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Fish Tapas? I'm most envious.