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medical, personal, photography

Monthly Self-Portrait, May

We’re staying with the medical for this month’s self-portrait. As long-time readers will know I have Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, which means I can stop breathing when asleep. To counteract this, I have a CPAP machine which pumps air into my airway overnight to keep the airways open. It isn’t invasive, just a nuisance, and it does cramp one’s style somewhat. As you’ll appreciate from the image, us users are sometimes colloquially termed “hoover heads”. This is my usual sleeping attire!

CPAP mask in use
Hoover Head
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medical, personal, photography

Monthly Self-Portrait, April

So what to do for this month’s self-portrait, especially as I have this damned filthy cold back again? Oh well, lets have something some may consider TMI – although it’s nothing you couldn’t safely see in the gym changing room.

As long-time readers may remember, I’ve said on a number of occasions that I have a secondary nipple. This is apparently not that unusual – I bet some of you have too. It’s on the right side of my abdomen, a bit above the level of the navel. The corresponding place on the left side has just a slightly denser area of hair.

Anyway this is what it looks like, fairly close up. On the left is the actual vestigial nipple. On the right, a mole. (I’ve always had the mole; it’s nothing to worry about). Keep in mind that the area in the photograph is about 4cm wide.

Close-up view of a secondary nipple
Left: secondary nipple. Right: a small mole. Image 4cm wide.
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photography

Buggered Britain #27

Yet again it’s been about 4½ years since we had a “Buggered Britain” post. I blame the plague, largely as it’s meant not going anywhere much, and consequently when one does the eyes and brain are out of practice looking for photographs. Somehow I have to get everything working again.

Anyway the other day, travelling along the A40 to Hammersmith Hospital, I spotted this pretty mess: a mixture of fly-tipping (or just lazy householders) and incomplete clear-up after roadworks – all of which has clearly been there, creating an eyesore, for some months.

roadside fly-tipped mess
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photography, ramblings

Bits of Spring

It was actually sunny today, on and off, although quite windy. And Spring is definitely beginning to burst out all over. So I thought we’d have a few quick snapshots caught between gusts of breeze.

a single yellow celandine flower
The early celandines are still flowering; there’s a goods scattering
all across the garden (which shows how wet our garden is).
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a single yellow dandelion
Of course there is also a good crop of golden dandelions
coming along for the early bees.
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bright pink blossom all over our ballerina apple tree
Our columnar “ballerina” ornamental crab apple tree has been a mass
of bright pink flower for the last week.
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delicate white & pink blossom on the Pinova apple tree
Meanwhile the Pinova eating apple has burst into bloom;
I’ve no great hopes of a good crop as there seem to be no pollinating
insects abroad and the compatible Falstaff tree is only just starting to flower.
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how did this deconstructed bird feeder end up in the middle of the lawn?
Strangest of all, how did this deconstructed bird feeder get from
it’s hanger to the middle of the lawn?
The fox was seen on the trail camera playing with it one night,
but I can’t think a fox managed to get up and dislodge it.
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