The whole armful

Or not, as it happens

Three times now, since I've been living here, I've been invited to give blood. This time I managed to get along. I read the warnings about who shouldn't give blood, and I filled in the form, and I reported at the appointed time, and I read the book they gave me warning me again about when I shouldn't give blood, and I was all clear. So I waited for an hour before being called, and then answered the questions all over again.

Only then did they tell me that I wasn't allowed to give blood because - as I'd dutifully recorded on the form - I had a transfusion of two units in 1999 when I had a haemorrhage following surgery.

Pah! That's an hour of my life lost. And yes, I know it's they that need my blood not me, and I know I'm hypersensitive about possible feelings of rejection, but the little niggling voices inside me were sniggering and saying 'not good enough!' over an over again. I'd been feeling very positive too. Grrrr!

Running Diary

I didn't really want to get out of my nice warm bed this morning but I did, at 7am, and was out running almost before I realised it.

Another continuous half-hour session, then. Up to the allotments, then along the Walney Promenade as far as North Scale, and back along the Promenade to the Walney Bridge.

Note that deviating from the Promenade on this route means a nasty little hill whichever point I make the deviation. Either that or I drop over the sea wall into the Channel!

Anyway - it's looking good and although I struggled a bit early on I was cruising at the end, even on the final climb to the bridge.

Doctor Who meme

Hey, I haven't done a meme in simply yonks!

This one comes with thanks to satsekhmet.

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