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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Isle of Man, Isle of Man; or, Does Whatever and Isle Can

 
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Wow, It's been a while since I touched this, hasn't it?  Well, to be fair, I've been busy.  Oxford, Cambidge. The Original College Towns.  Did I mention that I took out some time in London to make a pilgrimage to Canterbury? It was my favorite place I've been, actually.  I loved it.  anyway, the point is that after Cambridge I went to (the real)Oxford, then Bath and the Cotswold Villages(Funny story about a National Fowl Trust--but when I come home to (the fake) Oxford I'm going to write a much more detailed account of my travels).  Then Bristol, Cardiff, Caernarfon and small-town Wales, Ferry from Liverpool, the Isle, Ferry to Belfast, and now here, stuck, becuase apparently there4's only one bus from Belfast on Sunday.  It's okay,  not a major obstacle.  Just a slightly unpleasanty surprise.


Speaking of unpleasant surprises, I was bit by a spider on my finbger while visiting the Avesbury Stone Circle (kind of a lesser known Stonehenge), and rather than transforming me into The Amazing Spider-Man, I soon found that I was having difficulty with muscle control in my left hand.  Which was unfortunate, to say the least.  But it got better by the next day, so I'm not going to worry about it.  Oh, and the Isle of man is a neat if obscure place, and I'm out of time.

I'll leave you with this thought:  There's no place like home.

Well, that's all, mes  amis

'Later

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when are you getting home?  i go to camp tomorrow, and i want to know when i should start harassing you and your brother by phone so i can hear all about your trip.  i hope you are having an amazing time, and that the rest of your trip goes well.

ps... i could not keep this motherly/emt part of me in.... if your finger starts to swell or is painful or if you lose muscle control again, please please please see a medical professional about it.  as cool as spider man is, that's just one guy out of millions that have been bit by a spider and gained super powers, every one else gets sick or dies or gets over it.  the odds are not with you. 

after doing some research, i found this encouraging statement from Jan Becaloni, curator of arachnida and myriapoda for the Natural History Museum, "In the UK, we do have a few spiders that are able to bite and some people might have a reaction, but it's really rare indeed and nobody dies from British spider bites at all" 

read more about spiders and the UK here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3539410.stm and here http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40002378/

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