Monday Morning

So, after a few delays, I've got my flexible sigmoidoscopy this afternoon.

Been a trifle stressed at home as some of the new shelves have been slightly misaligned: so there are still hundreds of books in boxes. The carpenter will come to fix the shelves today. (Fingers crossed.) SWMBO is  naturally exceptionally tidy, and I must admit I've noticed the levels of discontent rising, but she reassures me that it's not a sacking offence. Three weeks of untidiness and semi-squalor is slightly more than a girl like her can put up with. Added to which the present financial crisis has had a massive and detrimental effect on her savings and pension.

Some time ago I mentioned that Gordon Brown only seemed to be any good when he's up against it*....well, it's still in the balance, but he does rather seem to have provided a plan (along with the Chancellor and treasury, and various other clever economist types) to extricate ourselves from the bankers mess. 'This is the first financial crisis of the global age', said Brown. And it needs a global response.
 
But it still doesn't change the facts that these bankers have beggared our children to pay for their bonuses. As have, to a certain extent, the rest of us who have lived on credit, and spent far more than we can afford.

The inherent Tory desire to limit regulation looks shot to bits too. Off balance debt looks to be a slight of hand similar to 'Find the Lady'. Awarding bonuses for such slight of hand does seem ever-so-slightly criminal.

Oh well, it'll get fixed; we'll all be poorer; and global capitalism will get resuscitated until next time.

*http://johnny9fingers.livejournal.com/133103.html

Nasty bottom stuff.

"Read more...if strong of stomach."

Well....I had my flexible sigmoidoscopy. Quite painful actually, but interesting nevertheless. They focused in on a polyp which they then removed. I saw the process happening on a monitor. They also found that I am suffering from diverticulitis. I've been booked in for a colonoscopy later in the year. This procedure will be done under anaesthetic, unlike the flexi sigmoid.

On the way home I broke wind and filled my trousers with what I can only describe as lubricant. This may have been your average public-school prefect of a certain period's idea of heaven, but I found it more than slightly uncomfortable and embarrassing to boot.

Thankfully SWMBO found it amusing.

Fingers crossed that there ain't too much wrong with the Ninefingers colon.