Under the Weather

I was going to just write a quick post to apologise for not getting round all the blogs I should be getting round. I am feeling absolutely crap today as the cold virus that's doing the rounds has finally caught up with me. So if you have visited my blog, and I know a few new faces have, I will be round to return the compliment very soon, I promise!

So that's what I was going to do but as I wrote it, it struck me that what an odd phrase "under the weather" is. We are all, technically, under the weather all the time given that the weather is up in the sky and that is very definitely above us. So I googled the phrase and I cna now share its origins with you.

"Under the weather" is a nautical term that was originated, I believe, in the British navy. When a sailor was ill, he was kept below decks, and thus, under the weather.

Moreover, the deck they were under was likely "the weather deck", meaning the most exposed deck on the ship, usually the foredeck (over the seamen's quarters at the front end of the ship) or the quarterdeck (where the helm was located, high for a good view). Either way, if you needed to be sick, you wouldn't want to "toss your cookies" where the wind could toss them back in your face, nor would anyone with you want you to do so. You'd be firmly told to "under the weather" to be sick.

There you go and don't say you never learn anything by stopping by here!

There goes another one....

..so that's the birthday all over for another year. I've always let Christmas come and go without too much fuss but I always think birthdays should be special so it was quite sad that this year, for the first time, it didn't feel such a special day. Don't get me wrong, I had some super presents and the friends we were staying with made it a really lovely day for me and I had a really good time but perhaps as you get older the whole birthday thing just isn't quite so important.

I do hope not and maybe it was just down to the fact that I'm still not feeling too well. The room spinning has stopped but I feel like I have constant sea-sickness. So you'll be pleased to hear that I have an appointment with the doctor this morning. I shall report back later*.

*Later* I apparently have Viral Labyrinthitis. Doc has sent me away telling me to take Sudafed to clear the congestion in my head that is part of the problem and given me a prescription for tablets to take should the sickness/dizziness get too bad. I hasten to add that she has given me the type that dissolve in the mouth!

Thank you

Thank you for your get well wishes. I'm feeling much better today so hopefully whatever was causing the vertigo, probably a middle/inner ear infection, is losing it's grip abnd I can go and enjoy my birthday weekend with friends to the full! Yes, that was a blatant plug! *snigger*

Anyway, two days out of the office is a dangerous thing. I have come back to find my pathologically tidy boss has had a clear out in the office, including clearing my desk. OK, it was a tip but I knew where everything was and why it was in the particular pile it was in. Now I can't find anything. I dread to think what's been thrown away.....I know some packaging went and I had to go rooting through the rubbish sacks to find it because it was packaging for something that doesn't work and I have to return it. I'm going to put a big "Keep your hands off my stuff" sign up on my desk methinks.

A little under the weather

I have been a poorly bunny for the last few days. Poorly with room-spinning, loss of blance and nausea. It's not been fun as any abrupt movement brings on another attack and I'm reduced to a quivering wreck in the floor or, as I found myself yesterday morning, hanging for dear life onto the shower door to stop myself falling over. Some Googling this evening has led me to believe it's Vertigo.

I suppose I should go and see my GP but I'll see how it is in the morning. Isn't that just so British?