A dark Hefeweizen for me, please!
Léon has now progressed from his coffee-drinking stage.
This photo was taken during a visit to the West Brewing Company, a very nice micro-brewery and German restaurant at Glasgow Green. It’s a really nice place – the food is great (if you love German food), they have high chairs that match the rest of the furniture, and they have free Ikea toys for toddlers.
Temperature and blood pressure
Being off sick with a flu has given me a chance to ponder the various ways people in different countries deal with being ill. As all Danish people (possibly all continental Europeans), I check my temperature regularly when I’m ill (yesterday I reached 39.5°C [= 103.1°F]), but Phyllis claims that people in this country don’t bother – more often than not, they don’t even own a thermometer. As she says, what would I do differently if I didn’t know my temperature?
In Georgia, people don’t check their temperature either, but instead they check their blood pressure, and they thought it was weird that I didn’t know my normal blood pressure.
I believe I once heard that people in China do something different when they’re ill, but unfortunately, I’ve totally forgotten what it was. Does anybody know?