Archive: 2022-07
Week 81: Foiling the heat
My skin is getting better. By gently exfoliating and regularly applying emollient cream to my face (as frequently as one an hour when it was at its worst), that has now mostly recovered from the outbreak of eczema. It still feels a bit rough in places, but it looks fine.
Week 80: Hot, bothered, and exhausted
I didn’t sleep well on Sunday night, or Monday night, or Tuesday night. It was too hot. I was in two different kinds of pain. By Wednesday night, I was so deranged from lack of sleep that my mind was beginning to fray. L— was at a course in Oxford, so I went to bed early and looked forward to making up that sleep deficit.
Week 79: Swollen gland
On Thursday evening, we went to a launch event for Michael Pedersen’s book Boy Friends. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of it. I’m glad that the Social managed to survive the past couple of years, because it’s a lovely venue for that kind of event.
Week 78 (again): Droning on
Week 78: Six years isn’t so bad
Our favourite local bar and vegan burger place, The Full Nelson in Deptford, closed for the last time last night. It was a lovely, cosy, friendly place, usually playing some 80s metal or rock, full of extraordinary looking people and cute dogs. It hadn’t been open long when we found it shortly after I met L— in 2017, and we’ve been going at least every other week to get some beers, to eat some (delicious) burgers, and usually to solve a crossword together. It’s devastating to lose something so special.