Hi to everybody...didn't have a good night...couldn't get off to sleep after turning the light out at 1 and gave up at 2 and made myself a cup of tea with some wheatmeal bics as my stomach was rumbling and a paracetomol to get me off to sleep...it worked...LOL...well, until 5.30 when I turned over thinking that I'd had a nice long sleep...hmmmed...and went back to sleep again until 6.40 then turned on the radio at 9 to listen to In Our Time on the Empiricist philosopher/scientists of the Vienna School...was interesting but something funny happened at the end...a while back now I saw a series on how we, humans, evolved and the animals and fish that finally became us...the presenter caught a very primitive fish whose defence mechanism was to produce masses of mucous so that it was almost impossible to grasp...one fish could nearly fill a bucket with it and that was allegedly the fish that started off the journey of evolution for us...ever since I heard that, I thought that this is what must happen when our bodies detect an external threat...it produces an excessive amount of mucous, which I believe is triggered by this primal gene still existing in our DNA code...it was fine under water, but, for us, it's not good...we can literally drown in our own mucous if the body doesn't stop producing it...one way, when medication is not available quickly, is to hold your breath for as long as possible and the body gets the message to stop making it...I was thinking about this while listening to Melvyn Bragg's prog because I was coughing quite badly and nearly choking...and thinking about this perishing fish we've got in our gene bank, held my breath and sorted it out...the funny thing was, when the prog finished, Bragg told us what next week's subject is...the earliest life forms from which we evolved...LOL...hmmm...he's done this before, but this was very much spot on...:))
Have had a walk today round to Lidl's so a good couple of miles and it's another scorcher...:) Don't think the blog meet is going to materialize...never mind...will happen again one day...:) We also went into the Range to buy a card and we were stopped at the door and told we couldn't take our Lidl's carrier bag into the shop!! New rules...no large carrier bags allowed anymore after some people were caught with full bags leaving the shop without paying!! Bugger these thieves who spoil things for everybody else...I hate this security consciousness that's coming in everywhere now...makes you feel like a criminal before you've even got in the shops...Anyway, the security chap told us to take our bag to the customer services and they would look after it...we said, no, we're not doing that, you can look after it for us, so dropped it behind him and walked into the shop to get the card then paid for it and came back and collected our bag...HLOL...hubby was so annoyed, he nearly refused to go in the shop any more...
That's it for now...am cooling off after our walk...hope you are all having a good day, are managing to keep cool somehow and send great big hugs to one and all...