h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

How appropriate that on talk like a pirate day I have (without any forward planning) managed to develop arms like Popeye after his spinach.

No - before you ask I have not been working out and you're making me even thinking about that. I made the most basic error of re-entering the garden again on Sunday.

Yes I did, yes I know the dangers, and yes I should have learned from my mistakes, but I did it - I had a new fence which needed painting and I just walked out there and did it on Sunday.

However, someone had wired the midges off that I'd be coming and I was bitten - not once, but twice.

Midgie bites are hardly on a par with clegg bites I hear you cry - in fact they're almost nothing - except if you're me apparently.

By Monday night both bites had started weeping and while I have one bite on each arm, my right arm is swollen at the top and my left arm is swollen at the bottom - so the effect is a slightly lopsided Popeye - with stuff oozing.

Both bites are obviously infected and I'm putting off going to the for more horsepills - why oh why oh why me - again.

Anti-histamine cream?

Piritron tablets?

*sends healing over*

Oh my Fizzy, I'm so sorry to hear that.
Get well soon

Have been doing the anti-histamine tablets and ointments since Monday - not quite so itchy now, but still quite lumpy and looking a little green around the edges

I must learn from my mistakes
I must learn from my mistakes
I must learn from my mistakes
I must learn from my mistakes.........100 times

Poor Popeyemouse!