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Greetings from York! Today I was mostly on the train, then in the afternoon I arrived at my B & B. I walked around the walls and saw the Shambles (a medieval street) and looked a little bit at the Minster -- I'll probably view it in more detail tomorrow.

It's too bad I look so ugly with glasses on, yet need them if I want to see more than a couple feet. I caught an accidental glimpse of myself when pulling out my phone to take a picture and the camera was for some reason flipped to show my face instead of whatever I was pointing at. I look like Velma from Scooby-Doo, but...
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http://torchytodd.blogspot.co.uk

Everyone must read this. (Okay, not really -- and in fact I suspect a lot of people won't really like it that well. I think the comic where Torchy goes to fat camp because she needs to lose 7 ounces and discovers a famous actor is dressing like a ghost to scare women away from the fat camp kind of says it all.)

Ended up walking to the emergency department (a rather long walk) -- oddly I felt better during and after the walk than I did when I was sitting. Got antibiotics... I hope they will help; and I hope I'm just hallucinating this itchy feeling or something and it's not the antibiotics because I don't want to have to go there again tomorrow...

Today my ears felt better than they had been, but still not good, and my hearing is getting worse again. And also the garlic I'd been taking to help recover more speedily seems to be having its own side effects -- this morning the skin around my eyes was all stinging and a touch puffy after I took some garlic, and I assumed it was...
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Called the NHS 24 hotline last night, and I am a little confused by the advice they gave... was told to take paracetamol but if that didn't help to go to the emergency room. Except, the trouble isn't really with pain, per se, so I'm not sure if it's helping or not... I called the Minor Injuries Clinic to see if they'd be an appropriate...
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It's interesting... I notice that, here in Scotland, men will kiss each other (particularly when drunk.)

Still kind of going to and fro on being recovered from that ear infection... my hearing is improving, I can hear the crunchy noises when cars drive by again. It still sounds muffled when I hum to myself though. I went out today to the National Gallery thinking that...
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Ears are going kind of bad again, I'm back to thinking I may need a doctor. The pain is actually more severe this round when it comes, though it seems to sort of vanish then reappear kind of inexplicably... sleeping (laying down?) seems to make it incline away. I'm getting disturbed, as well, by noticing my hearing isn't the same as usual -- like I...
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