I am having a well-earned break this week, largely down to the realisation that if I do not, this lousy cold will never leave me alone! Furthermore, as I\u00a0have some exciting\u00a0assignations planned over the next couple of weeks, common sense has eventually found a way in and I have committed myself to a leisurely few days enjoying the beautiful weather, eating banned-list foods (currently pickled onions) and listening to Tom Waits (unfortunately the only albums I can comfortably sing along to at the moment). So not much to report!<\/p>\n
I am still waiting to hear about my possible new premises and daydreaming about the potential facilities I may then be able to offer my guests! There will certainly be a nice hot shower with fluffy towels and robes as well as far better parking available (for those among you who have never had trouble when visiting here – wait until the school summer holidays!) And the station is very close by, a boon for me and for my red wheelie-suitcase (which is frankly starting to look a little weary, even after only a few short weeks of being unceremoniously hauled around\u00a0station concourses and the awful steps to the Kings Cross ladies.) During a very pleasant stay at a 4 star Midlands hotel over the Bank Holiday last week, I also noticed that within the leisure suite, the hot ‘spa pool’ (a jacuzzi to me, but I show my age!) seemed very popular – I had looked at similar (domestic) versions in the showrooms the other week but\u00a0I think this will remain\u00a0merely an\u00a0engaging thought; as many of you know I am extremely fastidious and the prospect of Legionaire’s Disease is not particularly appealing.<\/p>\n
On the subject of pathogens, a\u00a0chat with the\u00a0lovely lady doctor at the clinic earlier today has prompted me to ponder\u00a0upon the state of health of\u00a0potential visitors – apparently the advertisements on television are correct and many unpleasant and antisocial (not to mention itchy) illnesses are on the rise once again, even in our small locale! I, due to my vocation am placed squarely in the ‘Extremely High Risk’ category of their patients, despite the fact that I like to visit monthly (& know the staff by name), have all my shots, swabs & blood tests up to date and always use\u00a0appropriate protection (which I pay for rather than avail myself of the kindly-offered free\u00a0supply at the clinic – those of you who are aware of my rates will surely understand why I would never accept these from the NHS on general principle.) Therefore I believe my\u00a0service is\u00a0probably the safest high-risk activity in town; far more civilised and sensible than the tediously predictable drunk-pulling-drunk Saturday night action in the town centre! Anyone else think that might be worth at least a\u00a0poster campaign? OK, maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am having a well-earned break this week, largely down to the realisation that if I do not, this lousy cold will never leave me alone! Furthermore, as I\u00a0have some exciting\u00a0assignations planned over the next couple of weeks, common sense has eventually found a way in and I have committed myself to a leisurely few days enjoying the beautiful weather, eating banned-list foods (currently pickled onions) and listening to Tom Waits (unfortunately the only albums I can comfortably sing along to at the moment). So not much to report! I am still waiting to hear about my possible new premises and daydreaming about the potential facilities I may then be able to offer my guests! There will certainly be a nice hot shower with fluffy towels and robes as well as far better parking available (for those among you who have never had trouble when visiting here – wait until the school summer holidays!) And the station is very close by, a boon for me and for my red wheelie-suitcase (which is frankly starting to look a little weary, even after only a few short weeks of being unceremoniously hauled around\u00a0station concourses and the awful steps to the Kings Cross ladies.) During a very pleasant stay at a 4 star Midlands hotel over the Bank Holiday last week, I also noticed that within the leisure suite, the hot ‘spa pool’ (a jacuzzi to me, but I show my age!) seemed very popular – I had looked at similar (domestic) versions in the showrooms the other week but\u00a0I think this will remain\u00a0merely an\u00a0engaging thought; as many of you know I am extremely fastidious and the prospect of Legionaire’s Disease is not particularly appealing. On the subject of pathogens, a\u00a0chat with the\u00a0lovely lady doctor at the clinic earlier today has prompted me to ponder\u00a0upon the state of health of\u00a0potential visitors – apparently the advertisements on television are correct and many unpleasant and antisocial (not to mention itchy) illnesses are on the rise once again, even in our small locale! I, due to my vocation am placed squarely in the ‘Extremely High Risk’ category of their patients, despite the fact that I like to visit monthly (& know the staff by name), have all my shots, swabs & blood tests up to date and always use\u00a0appropriate protection (which I pay for rather than avail myself of the kindly-offered free\u00a0supply at the clinic – those of you who are aware of my rates will surely understand why I would never accept these from the NHS on general principle.) Therefore I believe my\u00a0service is\u00a0probably the safest high-risk activity in town; far more civilised and sensible than the tediously predictable drunk-pulling-drunk Saturday night action in the town centre! Anyone else think that might be worth at least a\u00a0poster campaign? OK, maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adoreamy.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}