Apologies To CrossRail
In a previous post, I accused CrossRail of not giving much information on the work they are doing.
But then I found these notes overlooking the new Canary Wharf station.
That is a lot better, so I apologise. But where is similar information at Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road stations?
Jerry Couldn’t Put Up Coat Hooks Either!
The hooks for dressing gowns in the downstairs bathroom were hideous wooden ones, which if they’d cost a pound each in Dalston Market, you would have been robbed.
After taking one down, I found this behind it.
How Not To Put Up Hooks
So Jerry couldn’t even put up hooks in tiles without making lots of unnecessary holes. Note the two at the top as well!
Either that, or I’ve got woodworm that can chew through tiles.
Did Being In Hospital Trigger My Hay Fever?
I have just watched an item on Country File about hay fever.
I think now, that I’ve always sufffered from Hay fever and it was probably the reason why, I had such a bad school attendance record. I can remember in my first year at Minchenden, I virtually missed the whole of the second term.
But looking back, I’ve always suffered a little bit each year and can remember feeling better after I went on a gluten-free diet. But in the spring, I’ve often suffered an itchy bottom , sneezing and other hay fever like symptoms. C always said that I used to sneeze three times, then turn over before I went to sleep. I don’t do that now.
After she died, I changed small things in my lifestyle. For a start, I started to sleep in a totally closed room, whereas she had often kept a window open. I have always had a thing about draughts and thus, I always kept the house closed. The house was probably cleaner too, as now there was only one person living in it. I was also only down to one dog and she spent a lot of time with my secretary’s pack. So perhaps, I was living in too clean an atmosphere. Remember, I was usually driving a Jaguar with an efficient pollen filtering system. I didn’t go for too many walks in the countryside either.
Over the last three years or so, I have got the symptoms of hay fever of a runny nose, leg pains and lethargy and could it be caused because I’m not giving myself exposure to pollen in a graduated way. At one time, I was going to the continent a lot and was suffering badly. I put it down to different pollens in the two locations.
Then last year, just as the pollen was coming into season in the UK, I started on my trip around the world and had the stroke in Hong Kong.
There and when I returned to the UK, I was in an air-conditioned and hopefully sterile hospital, so my pollen defences weren’t aroused in the usual way as they are each season.
I now believe that the high pain I suffered last year was nothing more than a severe reaction to the pollen.
Let’s hope I’m on the right track, as if so, some simple immunotherapy might just sort it out. Especially, if Country File’s expert was right about how sometimes a too sterile environment makes hay fever worse.
London’s Floating Cinema
When I was watching the MS Deutshland leave, there was an interloper.
London's Floating Cinema
It is London’s floating cinema, that cruises the canals and rivers in the east of the city.
The Anonymous Widower 