Ouch

The pyracantha is spectacularly covered in berries at the moment. The combination of sharp spiky needles and red is apposite to the blood sampling at the surgery first thing this morning.

(Why on Earth does the spellchecker offer "anthracite" as the correct spelling of pyracantha?)

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I was semi-unexpectedly dropped into judging the karate grading this evening (semi-unexpectedly, being that I was unexpectedly told about it last week). Seemed to go OK, but I was glad of the crib sheet I knocked together earlier.