Pain drain

I discovered a new kind of pain the other day when I inadvertently stepped on a nail while perambulating around the vegetable garden. It was buried amongst some hedge prunings. The nail penetrated the feeble sole of my fake crocs, bore through my foot’s leathery outer tissue, and sank itself deep into my instep.

cimg2188Close scrutiny will reveal the top two thirds of the nail cleansed of rust, which might account for the raised red nature of the wound, and the curious crablike motion I now have to make when ‘walking’.

Tooth ache

Poor Nicky with all the tooth ache gubbins.

IT brought to mind an incident a few years ago when I had a similarly agonising ear infection. Fortunately I had worked out that you take Ibuprofen every four hours and in between codydramol/ cocodamol so that you get a pain relief hit every two hours.

On the down side after a night of very little sleep and much grumbling the next morning Sasha got up and promptly collapsed on the floor and had to be taken to casualty – it seems the lack of sleep had effected her more than me. I had to switch from being the poorly patient to concerned partner in an instant. Fortunately the hospital were kind enough to give me some kind of heroine which helped considerably.

In order to avoid such problems I have decided to date a medical student. From now on if any of us have any health problems or questions (no matter how petty or annoying) we can all call Iona at any time of day or night and she will patiently help us. I have already been diagnosed as having a rare fungus on my belly button and an irrelevant lump on my neck… if anyone has a slight sniffle this winter you know who to call.

Happy Tom :-)

This is Iona and these pictures were taken on my birthday. It’s only been a month that we’ve been together but what a thoroughly jolly month it’s been…

Off to the snowy slopes

Arrived at gatwick. Vastly early, but that’s better than late!

A most humorous letter of complaint

uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/

Read this at work and couldn’t stop myself chortling!

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A monthly chart of the ‘Beast’, as the GBP/JPY cross is known in the Forex world, on account of its extreme volatility and propensity to crush unwitting traders underfoot. Note the all time low reached recently! Is the tiny upward blip any more than a dead cat bounce? Or is it the beginning of a major climb?

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