Watch out guys, Grumpy is coming!

WD 9/20

I shall have to watch myself today as once again, I had very little sleep last night. It went like this… trying to get to sleep when it was hot and I was itchy from mosquito bites and prickly heat (more on this later) … and eventually drifting off at long last but not for long, as the electricity came on, about 10 hours late, just before midnight. Of course, the whole house burst with lights which were left on and they woke me up. It went off again at its usual time, 2am, and again, it woke me up because the big free standing fan stopped. Had a bit more sleep before getting woken by church service at 5:30. I must watch myself today and not be too grumpy! Wish me luck.

Prickly heat – strange animal that I am, even although I was born in Bangkok and lived there for 9 years, I remember always suffering from prickly heat during the hot season. Sometimes it got so bad that I had to get medication. (Alice – sorry, you seem to have inherited this annoying thing from me, among many others!)

Fast forward a few decades. I am now exactly where I was, in prickly heat term. Despite 3 / 4 / 5 cold showers a day, very limited exposure to the direct sun (apart from last weekend) and antihistamine tablets, I am plagued by prickly heat. Imagine lots of sharp needles prickling away at your body in random places but most of the time… Last few trips to the Far East lulled me into a false sense of security as I did not suffer from prickly heat then. So, I never thought of bringing calamine lotion this time. It is so bad now that I will take myself to a pharmacy this morning and there is one across the road from…the school, next to the barber’s and the grocer’s (but it does not sell Prestige).