Desiring sleep

Now, we all know I like a good whine. but I'm bored of whining now. My hayfever's been attrocious this year; bad enough that I've not slept. That's pretty rare for me, to have hayfever bad enough that it wakes me or stops me sleeping. Traditionally night's been the time when I could forget about my hayfever. But not this year; I've not had a solid night's sleep for about a week. I wake at 4:30am-ish, sneezing, coughing, barely able to breathe. If I'm lucky (like last night) I can eventually get back to sleep - but it takes a long time. And then I'll wake up at 5:30 or 6:30 to the same problem. I usually give up then, because by the time I get back to sleep it'll be time for me to get up.

I am, therefore, clattering unhappily towards complete exhaustion. I note, looking at my account, that the money for my prescription payment certificate's been debited, so I shall make an appointment to see my GP this week. Hopefully I can get the nasal spray and the referal to Guy's in London, where I can get some kind of allergy treatment. I can't go on like this; I'm so tired I'll end up doing something dumb at work.

( Perhaps less whiny after the cut )

Une petite rantette

So, I saw an 'incoming link' on my Wordpress blog, which oddly appeared to be linking to an ancient post about Coniston Copper Mines. I shan't name the place that it came from, but I'm always pleased to have people linking to posts....until I followed the link. It appears there's some obnoxious company which has decided to use content from other blogs to pad-out it's porn-peddling and advertisment 'blog'. Presumably the idea is it gets indexed by google and the like, and by having random shite on there people will follow links and end up being bombarded with crap.

Given that I also suspect that they are the kind of bottom-of-the-gene-pool merchants who throw spam at people I'm not going to try e-mailing them to say they've stolen my content. Instead I'll post this petty little rantette and leave it at that. Grr.