Bah, humbug!

From the preview chapters from the latest Ring of Fire novel.
"Darryl couldn’t really follow the nautical stuff that was getting yelled as she got under way, not least because the accent was so damned off. The dialect almost sounded like some of the north-west German guys he knew, but the accent had him wishing for subtitles.

    None of the other English guys understood much of what the collier’s crew were saying either, apart from Leebrick, who’d run into Tynesiders before. Mackay averred that he’d had a couple in his company, because although Newcastle was a bit outside the traditional Borders area, it was close enough that a few of them had been around when they’d been recruiting. And he’d never been able to understand a bloody word they said either, which was something coming from a man, who, when he decided to really come the Scotsman, was flat-out incomprehensible"

Why, ah divvent knaa what thon daft fewels're taakin aboot, there's nowt difficult about larning yersel Geordie.

Hmmph!

 

Bloody Antibiotics

So the Fluocloxacillin says "Take on an empty stomach, an hour before food, or two hours after food".

I'm taking it four times a day, my day has become "Well, if I don't eat now, even though I'm not hungry, then I'll not be able to take a pill until an hour after I finally  get around to eating, but if I do eat now, then I can't take the pills for two hours." I actually ended up being awake until 4:30AM just to try and fit in yesterday's fourth dose, and today has completely upset my stomach through not being able to eat when my stomach was saying I needed to.

Grrr! Thank god it's only a week's course!