Whoops

[nanila]

Yesterday was a little more exciting than I'd planned. I did not, in fact, make it to London for work. Instead, I learnt the following.

1. If you are a pregnant woman and you fall over in a train station, even during rush hour, people tend to get a bit worried.
   
2. Trying to convince people you don't need an ambulance because you're fine (by being unable to walk due to pain) doesn't seem to work.
   
3. Hearing ambulance sirens outside a train station and clocking that they were for me now ranks in the top three Most Embarrassing Moments of my life.
   
4. Riding in an ambulance is an experience whose repetition I'd like to minimise in my future life.
   
5. The NHS carries on being amazing. Special plaudits to Birmingham City Hospital Maternity Triage for a thorough checkup and scanning the baby.

[I'm fine - well, sort of. But if I'm a bit tired and flaky the next few weeks - even more than I have been lately - I apologise in advance. Baby is fine (definitely).]

Comments

[highlyeccentric]

Eeep! Glad you're OK and the hospital were decent to you.

Is Brum your home base? Brum is my UK base (by reason of boyfriend)!

[nanila]

Thank you!

Yes, Brum is (sort of) my home base. We live in a small village to the southwest of the city. The bloke is a lecturer at the U of B. That's why we're here rather than in London, where I work. In London we could afford a shoebox as opposed to the rather nice cottage we live in up here.

[highlyeccentric]

Aww, lovely! Mancreature kept raving to me about how cheap furniture is, how big his appt is, when he moved up. This is unfair, since I live in *geneva*, which is as expensive as london and harder to find housing in.

In order to ascertain how close our overlap might be: is your bloke a historian of any sort? If so, he probably knows my boyfriend. If not, probably not!

[nanila]

Some people at the recent space summer school were telling me that the cost of living in Switzerland is very high indeed, and then they got into an argument with eavesdropping Norwegians about whether or not Oslo is worse. :P

No, the bloke is a physical chemist, now housed in the Dept of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science. :)