Perspiration Pals 12 June 2024

Hi there, Pals! How are you today? It’s raining again and so on and so forth. Although yesterday it was raining on the bus too. It’s perfect. They provide showers and saunas in the summer. I absolutely love public transport.

I had to ask for an appointment with a dermatologist because my face is rotting away slowly… Slight exaggeration but it doesn’t look good. If I had to diagnose it, I’d say it’s atopic dermatitis or eczema or the manifestation of a curse. It’s right under my right eye so it’s extra wrinkly and honestly I’ve managed to age 10 years in about 3 weeks. My arm/elbow pain is on a scale from ‘oh, it’s fine now’ to ‘call your GP now and get a referral to a rheumatologist!’ So naturally I procrastinate like a champ. You’ve just read ‘confessions of boring old girl’. So let’s move on to something more interesting.

I’ve read about some shark attacks in the news so I thought I’d tell you about some shark facts. Did you know that sharks kill 12 people per year while people kill 11,417 sharks per hour? Also, New Yorkers bite 10 times more people than sharks do worldwide. I did not know that about New Yorkers… And did you know that the author of Jaws dedicated the last decade of his life to the preservation of sharks to make up for the mass hysteria he helped create.

All right, Pals, let me leave you with this picture of Tobi, our late dog, who seems to have been woken up from a good nap in this picture. My Dad attached a tricolour on his collar because it was a national holiday and you know, he was a Hungarian vizsla. Well, he did know a lot of Hungarian words and was brilliant at ignoring the ones he didn’t want to hear.

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