Why This Is Hell

1. Kudos to Evan Davies who told Jim Naughtie off for thanking Andrew Marr on Monday's Toady programme at about 8.30. Marr had clearly been precorded and Naughtie - who should know better - wasn't fooling anyone.
   
   
2. The Anthony Gormley statues seen in London are now lying on the roof of the De la Warr Pavilion - I feel a trip to Bexhill on Sea coming on. And maybe a visit to the bookshop.
   
   
3. My blood pressure is up - having nearly forgotten to go into a well known pharmacy to pick up my prescription, I had to explain that my name wasn't Batch, rather I had a batch prescription lodged with them. Further I had to explain that these were situated through the back. I had brought six psecriptions in a month ago, and this was not the last one. And as it was already signed and dated, I didn't need to sign and date it. I begin to regret telling the doctor - who had, after all, talked me into using this scheme "for the convenience" - that I had finally got them trained at the chemist after two years. Frankly, going in the the surgery to drop off a repeat prescription and picking it up 48 hours later is less stressful.

So the solution to fear of oversleeping? Fail to sleep. Or at least sleep very little. I think there was some sleep before 4.30am, but little. At 7.30 it becomes easier. Once the alarms start.

I like the alarms on my new phone. If you don't turn it off properly, it gives you a 9 minute snooze, which works well with five alarms set.

The nurse had fun - at least three attempts to snag a vein. Remind me never to start mainlining heroin. Ow ow ow. Perhaps I don't have enough veins - with the proper amount of blood. Stands to reason that it looks like I've got high blood pressure - it has to go somewhere. Apparently I should have had some water before I left home. Don't eat but drink. Okay, brief me guys.

Meanwhile, yes, let's have that Laurel & Hardy boxset - and place your bets that I spend as much on tracking down the omitted films (Fra Viavolo, Bonnie Scotland, Flying Deuces, Babes in Toyland and I assume Atoll K, The Bullfighters, Nothing But Trouble, The Big Noise, The Dancing Masters, Jitterbugs, Air Raid Wardens, A-Haunting We Will Go and Great Guns - the post Hal Roach Fox and MGM features).

Whilst musing on classic comedies it strikes me that I should price the Harold Lloyd complete set again, and see what other Keaton is out there (not that I've watched the five DVD set I have). I don't want to start on Chaplin. Yet

Came home with a box of Belgian chocolate biscuits which will be transformed into a Useful Tin For Keeping Things In and watched the finale of Seinfeld. I think I need to watch something different before I do season four of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Maybe some of the inexplicably purchased Hitchcock films.