Off to the allergy doc as usual this morning, home again with a big, bad antibiotic to take once a day for a week. Let’s see the cough stand up to that!

In other news, November is doing what November does in Ontario: raining coldly and feeling dismal. The stretch from now to Christmas is the toughest part of the year: short, dark, dirty days followed by increasingly frigid nights, and all of it fraught with the fake glitz of intense holiday-oriented merchandising.

When I arrived at the doctor’s office, the radio was playing “White Christmas”, the Bing Crosby version. On the way home, the country music station on the car radio interrupted its usual programming of banjos and pedal-steel guitar to play “Christmas in Killarney”, again by Bing Crosby. I’m not at all sure I can take this for five more weeks!