Kinda cold

[ailbhe]

It's 17C. I'm dressed and cold, Linnea is dressed and fine, Emer is wearing pants and a onesie/popper-fastened vest and is fine.

I dreamed about central heating last night.

I'm going to give it another few hours - long enough to take electricity and gas meter readings and phone the billing company with them - and then see about turning it on. I guess we better finish insulating the attic today.

We aren't going out; yesterday's expedition to Oxford was fabulous but I had stupid period issues and ended up lying on the footpath on the way home, and then weaved drunkenly from sugar-hit to sugar-hit to get home. I also went pale-normal-pale-normal a lot. But I was ok really.

I think I may need to see doctors about this stupid problem, if it's going to go on.

The trip to the museum itself was wonderful; we saw bees doing their waggle dance to show where the nectar was, and loads of skeletons, including a three-year-old elephant skeleton which upset Linnea, and talked about cartilage and fossils and apparently also the anatomy of a cockroach (I have no seen cockroaches; there was a glass case of them. They are vile, vile, vile. I much preferred the katydids and the tarantula). Emer was old enough to really enjoy the trip this time, which was lovely, and Linnea had a great time, and we also had a magnificent picnic, and found the exercise books I wanted Linnea to have in a WH Smiths there - their own brand, so I expect I can get them from the website in future.

The train from Reading to Oxford spent a lot of time blowing its whistle or horn - going choo choo, anyway, so Emer joined in, but since she was nothing like as loud as the train itself, let alone the train's whistle, I felt that was ok. Linnea really enjoyed looking at all the things going past.

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[taimatsu]

When it's this cold I start wearing tights and vests/t-shirts under my trousers and tops.

The cockroach-anatomy thing was fun! The big plastic model with red arrows was well-laid out so Linnea just picked an arrow and I read the label, with occasional extra explanations or translations where I thought the word might stump her ('tracheal system', for example; and I went into more detail about the spiracles being a bit like having noses down your sides). Maybe I should go into museum education work after all :)

The bees were my highlight. I could have watched them for ages and ages.

[barakta]

Interesting that you get the hypoglycaemia thing too - I get it dreadfully 2-4 days before starting periods. It's SO annoying cos I can't usually get enough food/sugar into me to keep functioning and it's sodding exhausting and miserable. I couldn't find much on it, but once found an academic paper talking about pre/early menstrual hypoglycaemia and how silly doses of sugar helped with pain too! I am getting tempted to go back on the pill for a few months to reboot it all - it's what worked in my late teens and made my early 20s bearable - whereas now the sugard/crashing and pain are becoming unmanageable again. Meh!

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I used to faint with bad period pains when I was a teenager, they're still just as bad tbh, but I have now discovered painkilers. My mum is anti medication & I never even took a tablet of any kind until I left home. I assume I had calpol as a young child though.

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

IANAD but you may be very anemic rather than hypoglycemic. Or both. In any case you are NOT really OK and should be getting advice from a real doctor. (What if you'd ended up lying in the street with the girls instead of on the footpath?)

You need to take care of yourself; if your girls had been turning pale and faint, you'd get them off to medical care quickly, wouldn't you? I am quite worried about you.

P.S. Cold?

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's getting chilly at 17 degrees c. Right now (10AM) it's 5 degrees here. We had fine snowflakes off and on yesterday with no accumulation other than a pretty dusting on the maple tree out back, made more impressive because the leaves had turned bright red. Two ski areas are now open in the Colorado mountains and the rest will open in the next 6 weeks if the weather doesn't change considerably.

Winter is icumin in. Ugh.