It’s no good I’m going to have to start going to bed earlier, I had a hell of a job getting going this morning. My normal routine seemed to take twice as long to complete and I’m feeling muzzy headed. Some of that is no doubt down to the allergy tablets which always affect me until my body adjusts to me using them again.

I first started suffering with allergies when I was pregnant with my youngest, up until that point I never had a problem. It seem to peak a few years later when I was allergic to nearly everything or at least everything they tested me for; the worse things being tree pollen, house dust mite (big surprise - dust in my house?), horses and cats. It was like someone had turned a tap on in my nose; I started buying pallet loads of Kleenex and Kimberly-Clark saw a dramatic rise in their profits. (I looked on the Kleenex site and they have a blog too - totally void of readers comments).

By far the worse was cats; my own cat at the time ended up moving in with my parents. It was that bad at one point that I had a reaction if I went to someone’s house and touched furniture that a cat had sat on. God help me if I touched my eyes after that; it was like acid being poured into them.

Slowly over the years it got better and the reactions lessened, although I’ve no idea why. Now I just appear to suffer from hay fever and as long as I take a Piriton tablet and let them build up in my system I don’t really have too much of a problem. Piriton were the only tablets that the doctor could prescribe at the time as I was breast feeding, they were and still are one of the cheapest on the market, and as far as my allergies go by far the best.

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We went to Malvern on Monday and walked around the town and museum. Malvern Priory was also open to the public so we had a wander around there too. It’s an amazing building and photographs of the stained glass windows do no justice. On the way home we stopped in Upton-upon-Severn, which was hosting a folk festival. Basically the town was over run with grey haired men with pony tails and amazing voices. There were groups singing or dancing on nearly every street corner.

Interestly there are orbs showing on this photograph.

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I’m off work tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow is an early morning run to the airport to pick up eldest and fiancée, the rest of the day is then my own. This time I’m not even going to mention writing.

Friday is a day out with Himself, where to is yet undecided.