Wretched cold...

[byslantedlight]

...all I want to do is go to bed to sleep, and that was all I wanted last night too - what a waste of being in London (which I'm not any more...)

My cold just got worse and worse, and though I dragged myself out for a walk to the river after the course...
...and paused at Amico Bio for a veggie dinner on the way back, I was soooo tired, and I just took myself back to my hotel room and collapsed.

Today was almost as bad - though I was a bit more awake for longer, which was good, becuse I decided I couldn't possibly force an entire YHA dorm room listen to me cough and sniff all night, and so I drove home instead of having an extra free day in town.Drove through pastures new too - the North Circular (Hangar Lane!) out to the M3, which was going west not north. The sun was spectacular - after being grey and flat all day, it peered out for some evening drama. I reckon... a dragon! *g* Then it was all gorgeously mellow and misty all the way back to Somerset...

Got back to WH safely, even stopping at the big supermarket in nearby town to pick up some more tissues, only... I knew there was a music festival here this weekend, and that was one reason I was planning to stop in London. I figured I'd eardrop and cottonwool my ears and let the tinnitus take over. Not ideal, but hey-ho... What I hadn't thought about was that everyone would have nicked the parking! Gargh! So I've had to park in the carpark that threatens numberplate recognition and dire consequences on all who park there overnight. Cross fingers for me - they'd have to be pretty tight to punish me because the organisers haven't arranged parking so as not to disrupt residents, right...?

Turned out S was home too, and watching telly loudly in her room, but she didn't do more than call out hi when I did, and I don't want to breathe my Horrid Germs all over her, so I put my earphones in to watch Doctor Who on iPlayer, and hid with a medicinal glass of Drambuie (which I can actually taste!) I feel bad that I'm going to be coughing all night, but...

Also - Doctor Who!
I quite enjoyed that! The Doctor was fun - I liked his bickering with Robin, though there wasn't really time for them to do it justice, and I loved his spoon. *g* I liked that we're moving from angsty-was-I-evil-really-Doctor to maybe-we-can-be-a-hero-really-if-we-work-out-what-that-is-Doctor too. Robin and his Merry Men were brilliantly annoying - a sort of... gentle Lord Flashheart! (Oh, Rik Mayall...)

Clara started off quite real again, I thought - at last we see some passion from her! - but then she descended into I'm-so-clever-and-beautiful-and-clever again, which I was sorry about... I liked her in the first Capaldi ep, didn't like her again last week, nearly liked her again this week... I just... still don't know anything about her, except "pretty and sassy". Alan a Dale caught my eye - he looked familiar, and then I wondered if he just reminded me of Tristan Farnon (Peter Davison), so I googled - and it turned out he's actually married to Mark Gatiss! Not that he was at all familiar to me cos of that, but I love finding out cool things when I'm trying to find out something else entirely...

And right - let's see if it's late enough that I can open my window a bit for some air without the music festival keeping me awake (it's only in a pub down the road!), and if I'm tired enough that I won't keep waking up S. And tomorrow, after I've done some work, I'm going to see if I can nip out to something cool I've had my eye on, to make up for missing more London... if I do, there will be pictures!

Comments

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

What a shame you had to cut your London adventure short - I hope your cold packs up and moves on soon.
I loved last night's Dr Who, sat and giggled all through it. And that IS cool, finding out about the actor who played Alan a Dale. Wasn't he also a lawyer / barrister in one episode of Sherlock?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, I hate colds! I was also going to go out and try to work in the library today, but I'm all coughing and sniffy still, which wouldn't be fair... It's the first morning S and I are in the same house working, and she's just said that she usually uses both downstairs rooms and has a video on whilst she's working, and asked if I was planning to work down here all the time - gargh! We did talk about where I could work, and I said I'd work downstairs though I was hoping to find a library or somewhere to work part of the time, only she didn't say that she listens to films when she works... not helpful! Though she's also being reasonable and totally nice about it, but that really really should have come up when we were talking about it before... Sorry - you got the rant of the moment, cos this has only just happened!

I think chappy was in Sherlock too - and his website/twitter thingie has a picture of himself with Billie Piper too, which I thought was from DW, so it looks like he's done a few things...

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

What on earth does she do that she needs two rooms, and can do it while a film is playing? That will be a terrible distraction for you and I think she should have mentioned this beforehand. I do hope you manage to sort something out with her.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I know... she's a costume designer though, so she says she uses the table I'm now at to lay out her designs, with her mannequins against the wall opposite, and her sewing machine is at the table by the window in the other room, and she has her films playing while she's doing all this... She can't use headphones cos she's moving around between things. I knew she'd be zapping between rooms (which are only divided by a half-wall, so it's really one room) and I didn't think that was a problem, but she didn't say about watching films as she did it... that would have been a no-brain we're-not-going-to-suit then... *sighs* Well, she's out Thursdays and Fridays, and if we can both compromise over the other 3 days - I'll try and go out to work somewhere (which I'd like to do anyway). But I must admit that I'm not mad on the idea of constant films downstairs three days of the week if I happen to be home... That's such a big thing, why didn't she say?! Not on purpose, but... *sighs more* We'll see though - I'd like it to work out, cos otherwise we seem to get on so far... mostly... *g*