Insomnia!
I'm suffering a bit with a fluey / throaty cough at the moment. So after spending half an hour or so keeping Debs (and myself) up with my coughing I thought I should leave her in peace so she can get some rest while I try and amuse myself until my cough calms down.
First stop, watch a bit of tv, the proms is on so I watch a bit of that. However, you know when you are trying to watch some classical music and you always end up sat next to the guy coughing all the time? Well, I can't get away from him this time as it's me so I go off and make myself a hot toddy. That helps a bit but soon enough the coughs are back.
It's now got to 1:30 so I need to find something else to amuse myself. Then I remember that it's the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight and I decide to go and sit on my front door step and watch it for a while as it's supposed to be the best one for years. Problem is though, living in Clapham, there is a fair amount of light pollution, least of all the street light obscuring my view!!! I do see one definite meteor and a couple of other possibilities. These may just have been those squiggly lines you sometimes see on the edge of your vision that disappear when you try and look at them though!!
I still remember sitting in Brian and Wendy's back garden a few years ago and just staring up at the sky one night and seeing lots of shooting stars on a fairly average night. If you can get yourself away from city lights on a warm summer night - I strongly recommend taking a deck chair and a pair of binoculars out and just looking up at the stars for a while - truly awe inspiring!! Again though if you are in Clapham I wouldn't bother!!
Of more interest tonight ended up being a fox doing his nightime rounds raiding the bins. He's made a bit of a home for himself in our back garden so I don't begrudge his scavanger habits!!
So now I find myself still coughing and wide awake at 2am so I thought I would write to you, my avid readers, asleep in your beds! Time to give the Hot Toddy another go...
First stop, watch a bit of tv, the proms is on so I watch a bit of that. However, you know when you are trying to watch some classical music and you always end up sat next to the guy coughing all the time? Well, I can't get away from him this time as it's me so I go off and make myself a hot toddy. That helps a bit but soon enough the coughs are back.
It's now got to 1:30 so I need to find something else to amuse myself. Then I remember that it's the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight and I decide to go and sit on my front door step and watch it for a while as it's supposed to be the best one for years. Problem is though, living in Clapham, there is a fair amount of light pollution, least of all the street light obscuring my view!!! I do see one definite meteor and a couple of other possibilities. These may just have been those squiggly lines you sometimes see on the edge of your vision that disappear when you try and look at them though!! I still remember sitting in Brian and Wendy's back garden a few years ago and just staring up at the sky one night and seeing lots of shooting stars on a fairly average night. If you can get yourself away from city lights on a warm summer night - I strongly recommend taking a deck chair and a pair of binoculars out and just looking up at the stars for a while - truly awe inspiring!! Again though if you are in Clapham I wouldn't bother!!
Of more interest tonight ended up being a fox doing his nightime rounds raiding the bins. He's made a bit of a home for himself in our back garden so I don't begrudge his scavanger habits!!
So now I find myself still coughing and wide awake at 2am so I thought I would write to you, my avid readers, asleep in your beds! Time to give the Hot Toddy another go...
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