Exciting

Last night’s football was very exciting, and extrmeely amusing to see all these English people not quite daring to believe. I stayed in today, resting my hands and feet again, though I do think I’m nearly well. I hope the second vaccine dose doesn’t lead to a repeat, though.

Hooray

Second dose booked, yay! And I’ve been told that in the UK at least worsened skin conditions have been widely reported as a side effect of the vaccine, so hopefully the eczema will settle down soon. And also not recur with the second dose. Donald Rumsfeld is dead. A man who loomed large over my […]

Cut from a carnivore

I returned to the hairdresser who gave me my last cut, once again an embarrassing length of time since the last one (though slightly less embarrassing than the last). I went there largely because I’d been putting off going to the GF’s good hairdresser for a few weeks as they take bookings on the phone […]

Angry Americans

At coffee in Cihangir today we sat next to an American on the phone and, of course, eavesdropped with great interest. He was talking to some sort of helpline in the US, to find out if he could get his first dose of the vaccine here in Turkey and then the second dose in the […]