OLD TIME

Greenwich time where the sun crosses the Greenwich meridian at 12oc in London is back and will stay with us til after next year's Equinox, the nadir being marked by Newgrange a couple of days before Xmas. I am confined temporarily to barracks by a doctor who wants to believe I have a heart condition and is making me take by blood pressure morning and evening and log it online.  I have to bare my left arm which is almost the same as undressing and wrestle with the arm-fitting thingy with acres of Velcro to get it into the correct position for taking reliable readings and then sit for five minutes thinking of nothing while my body relaxes so I can then take [supposedly] reducing numbers every two minutes until I get a reading which does not indicate I should be calling 999 for a heart ambulance.   Actually I don't mind being confined for a while while the clocks go back as it gives me pause for reflection, time to continue organizing the land base, filing and foldering recordings and photos and stuff hoovered up by three state of the art Samsungs I introduced recently into my life in an attempt to develop a relationship with the 21st century which is already almost quarter way to completion. 

The week has been interesting.  I got a horrible attack of mouth ulcers where it was extremely painful to eat and I brought it to the locum doctor at Willow Tree to observe diagnose and report.  Sat 1st Nov is not fully cleared up although I can eat. Yesterday also I went from here to the boat with a dolly bag of stuff for the boat and returned all within ten hours of leaving and it meant I could cope with my stinging mouth. 

Interlagos Sprint 2oc Saturday so maybe I can watch it on the web? Well you have to pay to watch but not to listen so I listened and very interesting it was.  Norris is flying it and is wished well for the race tomorrow night (8pm on steam radio) and the Conservatives have got a new leader, a computer scientist and a lawyer who did not go to Oxford.  She is on record as having hacked computers in college and has an impeccable CV. The first properly educated leader the conservatives have had since Thatcher.  She was born in London in 1980 but moved to live in Nigeria as a child and America as a teenager. Speaks English as a second language she says