Cold (2)

Despite several days of sub-zero temperatures, the pink Linara is still flowering.... (Doesn't it know it's supposed to be in the middle of the winter?)

A couple more of the kale plants have bitten the dust, however, and one of the beetroots -- I didn't really need three anyway.

The very belated honesty seedling is still alive, although it is now sharing its pot with a self-seeded orange poppy -- despite my concerns earlier this year, I am now able to distinguish them from the red field poppies on foliage and growing habit alone :-)

( Garlic and spring onions )

My alarm clock now seems to be working reliably again, thank goodness( Read more... )

( Chilblains )

( Hot water bottle technique )

GP appointment, modern-style

I went to my GP because I was told that I really ought to get a mysterious pain in my left hand checked out which has been troubling me since before Christmas -- I have been putting it off because I know that you have to jump through a vast number of hoops to see a doctor nowadays, and I always try to avoid doing so for anything that might go away of its own accord. I went to the GP surgery in person to try to book an appointment in the hopes of being able to simplify the process.

( telephone tennis )

Well, I feel vindicated; it wasn't worth the effort (and when the telephone assessment eventually comes I shall probably be given a brush-off -- I can't even inflict pain on myself by deliberately prodding and poking at the area at the moment, which makes remote diagnosis pretty much impossible).

I might as well have sat at home with my intermittent stabs of Something Wrong and let the doctors get on with the patients who actually do need urgent help, as opposed to wasting everybody's time, including my own...