Time machines

How cool is this! Send an email to your future self. I wonder what I'll think when that turns up in 10 years time :) (via me ish)

Week Off

I've finally recovered enough that I can cope with going to work or out and about without collapsing with exhaustion in short order, which is a good thing. Days off really work (especially days off with added hugs and coddling). I'm still having to pause and grab a tissue with reasonable frequency but I think I've got the damn thing on the run. I was musing with Ruth that I have a feeling that last year, when I didn't have hardly any colds, was also the year I didn't get the flu vaccination. If I remember, I might try not getting it next year, see if we can establish a more definite pattern.

Now that I'm starting to pick up again health-wise it seems as good a time as any to try taking a week off again. Until Saturday (Suzie's wedding!) I'm going to completely cut out caffiene and alcahol and try to cut down on things like meat, dairy and bread. It's not quite proper detox because I won't be cutting them out all together but still, I think it helps to have a clean out every now and then and it won't hurt my diet either. Lots of water too. I'd say early nights but that seems like wishful thinking :)

I was listening to Jack Straw on the radio this morning trying to claim that getting involved in Iraq hadn't made us more of a target for terrorism. There was one particularly fine part where he said in reference to something "I've never said that and nor has the Prime Minister" and James Naughtie immediately quoted to him the Prime Minister saying exactly that. He found it a little difficult to weasel out of that one, although he tried. I wish I could remember what it was though.

( on my bad list - Jack Straw, David Blunkett, Digby Jones )