The looming clouds

This is a very odd time to be writing. Really, I should be at school about to go to lunch (or probably to do more work). However, my chest isn't feeling too good. It kind of feels like someone's pressing a large, flat pebble into my breastbone. The result of a combination of cold last week and seasonal asthma. Having woken up like this, I thought four lessons would make it much worse, so I'm staying here in the warm instead. Also nice to have a decent amount of sleep for once.

Much progress with the small beast. he'll crawl up my arm and be picked up, now. I dreamt last night that I had a whole menagerie of two adult hamsters, a couple of rabbits, a dog, a cat and several baby versions of these all in one cage and they kept escaping. I'm sure there's a metaphor in there somewhere.

One other triumph, thanks to Facebook - I've found Sudeep! We haven't seen him in the eight years since we left school, after he emigrated to Florida.