Umpire

[caddyman]

Here I go again, like a broken record, but I’m hot: damned hot, and I’m sick of it.

I am finding it hard to concentrate between wiping my forehead and rattling my shirt collar in a vain effort to get air moving between it and my skin. Things have improved since I hit the office and its blessed air-conditioning.

I think the problem with my concentration is primarily down to the silence. It’s eerie, and I’m very much unused to it. Even the customary Magic Roundabout theme tune that kicks in when I’m daydreaming has stopped. It’s not fair. And the voices. Normally they argue and argue, goading me on to world domination^TM, but they’ve stopped bickering and organised a barbecue instead. So now I have to sit here at work while my psyche holds a party and downs a few beers. To make things worse, I’m sure I can hear the steak sizzling and smell cooking.

It’s probably just that loose wire again.

There was a bloke on the Tube this morning, a chap of about twenty-five, dressed in a pale cream linen suit, complete with matching waistcoat and Panama hat. Very dapper, if a little out of place. I guess he was on his way to Wimbledon, or perhaps a cricket match. Other than being the best dressed person in the carriage, he was mainly notable for the fact that he seemed to be being held up by his suit. Linen usually crumples in that Sidney Greenstreet fashion, but in this case, it was the bloke who had crumpled in the face of his own sartorial elegance. I got the distinct impression that it was probably the clothing that wanted a day out, and the poor chap was there largely as a delivery mechanism for his jacket and hat.

Look, this is what happens when the old melon overheats; I can’t help it. I’m off to try and do some work.

Comments

Try these

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

http://www.boots.com/shop/product_details.jsp?productid=1041472

Re: Try these

[romney.livejournal.com]

As a migraine sufferer I got a packet of these.

They taste terrible and are really hard to chew and swallow. On the up-side they turned my headache into a stomach-ache.

Asprins don't help my migraines either - they won't stick to my forehead.

Re: Try these

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually got a headache, which is just as well, when you consider that romney always has them, and see what paracetamol consumption has done to him!

I am just very, very tired.

Re: Try these

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

They are cooling pads - they stay cool for 6 hours...

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Given up with wearing a tie in the heat yet? Or would that be a step too far?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I rarely wear a tie, and haven't for a couple of years, now. Only when meeting the great unwashed, dear boy.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

Of course, the neck-noose could well soon be a thing of the past if the BBC's reporting is correct

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

And another block in the edifice of England crumbles...

[wallabok.livejournal.com]

I believe it will be a high of 21 with light showers in the Shires on Saturday...might have to put that marquee up after all...

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

Cut down on the *gasp* caffeine. I am aware of the heretical nature of such a suggestion, not to mention its hypocrisy coming from me *guzzle coffee* - but I've been forced to it and it works. I think coffee at least is a vaso-dilator and not consuming it during the hottest part of the day has helped more than I'm entirely happy to admit. Drinking water instead helps in other ways too, of course. Feh!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Cut down on caffeine?

Are.
You.
Mad?

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

I must be. I blame the lack of caffeine.

Hmmmm

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

This dapper chappie.

It wasn't J.W.A. Sanders by any chance, was it? I hear he still looks frightfully young (there must be a pictuere of his liver in an attic somewhere).

Let's face it, it would fit.