A very short blog today, even though I have so much to tell you. My Hopi Candles worked brilliantly in one ear but the wax in the other is so compacted that I still need to soften it with Olive Oil. At no stage has anyone told me that the oil needs to be hot, or at least the hot side of tepid. The practitioner told me to heat the bottle in hot water before using it. She got loads of brown gunge out of one ear and hardly anything out of the bad one. Never mind, one ear is better than none. It was a lengthy procedure and it has tired me out.
The picture is of our happy sparrows who live just to the left of the patio-doors. Half the family seem to favour the winter-flowering jasmine and the other half prefer the honeysuckle. As both shrubs are extensive and intertwined at the join, the sparrows have a great time socialising and they love it when the sun comes out. As you can see, the one on the left of the picture is staring me straight in the eye as I took the photograph, but as I am safely behind glass he isn't worried at all.
More tomorrow............................
2 comments:
Pleased to hear (!)that the Hopi-Kopi was at least half effective. The cynic in me suggests that syringing would have worked just as well.
I had understood that candling is a relaxing procedure leading to euphoria; possibly rather like smoking opium? (Not that I would be able to make the comparison, never having been offered opium nor, for that matter, any other illegal substance apart from Dexadrine). Your experience does not quite seem to confirm this sort of nirvana.
I have also always understood that the reason for using warm oil (ie, not straight from the fridge) is to avoid any discomfort or pain. My mother always warmed it for this reason on what I recall as rather frequent occasions when I had earache as a small child (quite as bad as toothache and thankfully cured by removal of tonsils when I was 9).
It is a nice picture and the birds look completely at ease. Our happy sparrows favour a yew and adjoining weigelia as base for sorties to the feeding points.
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