What’s this all about? How can I, three weeks from being 40, suddenly have got hayfever? I thought you were supposed to grow out of allergies as you grow older, but in the past year I have now developed:
1. Hayfever
2. A wheat intolerance
3. A more pronounced intolerance of corporate dimwittedness (to put it politely)
Now, number 2 is an inconvenience but tolerable. Number 3 has been growing each year, and on each experience of it.
But number 1 has caught me by surprise. I mean, it’s not as though it’s a brilliant summer out there or anything. And then I read that caffeine tolerance drops in your forties, which might mean the weekend lattes become less enjoyable. But reading the rest of the page, I am hoping that that is just scare-mongering to make me take up the healthy coffee excellent business opportunity. Except all the products sound revolting.
Just have to find another way to avoid number 3 then!
So, as I have to sit indoors away from the grass, and guess not with a cup of coffee, I am going to entertain myself with this blog entry from Urusula’s Not So Secret History. It’s a piece from the Sunday Times last year, but still funny today. Juggling guilt would be my specialist subject on Mastermind, although I am lacking the home-improvement projects.
Count yourself lucky it waited till you were 40. If you are really lucky you’ll get sneezing fits like mine, which have been charmingly described as ‘like a puppy.’