Ouch

Sea Holly - Eryngium "Miss Willmott's Ghost" - extremely spiky even when out of focus, though that's not the source of pain - that source is my not getting a block in place fast enough during karate sparring tonight.

The jaw's a bit delicate... though E's just supplied some medicinal red wine. Ta.

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Back-to-work routine today (bah, emails. Select-all, delete. Sorted.)

Actually, a former colleague used to do something like that - returning after a longer absence he'd announce that his hard drive had crashed and if anyone had emailed anything important recently, please could they send it again...

S is having a 24+hr LAN battlefest in the signal box. 'Age of Empires' I believe. There's more computing power (or indeed testosterone) in there than I care to imagine.

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Miss Willmott's Ghost is so named for said Miss Willmott's habit of scattering the seed in other people's gardens. It's biennial, so it lurks for a year then pops up where you didn't expect it; seeds freely then lurks for another year...