The horror of Marina mosquitos and midges was realised and a trip to hospital was averted. News and view from the Countess at the Marina.

hello gorgeous people of the internet welcome to royal clearance radio now i have been temporarily incapacitated for the last few days i'll tell you why i'd gone to bed a couple of nights ago at the marina and i left the windows wide wide open we have we're having an indian summer it's just crazy and it's so close and warm and the windows and the doors they have to be open because i don't have a fan i suppose i should get one of those fans fitted up on the ceiling i think i might do for next fall well next summer actually but the problem with the heat i think in fall is that you get the midges there's there are more midges i think i don't know if this is true anyway my whole my i had exposed my flesh darlings exposed my flesh on the four-post bed um all night and i woke up and i'd been bitten by a mosquito and it had bitten me about 20 times hello romeo romeo is here my persian cat and it had bitten me about 20 times on my forearm okay and i'm very allergic and they came up like sauces little sauces each one and i was sort of fine all day i had to go to brighton i was taking mummy to the grand in brighton for tea so obviously one's committed and you know what i had to go i was meeting my daughter so off we went i started to feel a little bit i would say delirious just slightly delirious come the afternoon um and then all the sugar because the tea was i'll do a review of the tea in a minute but all the sugar but obviously done weird things and then later we had wine and the wine went straight to my head and so by the time we got home i was practically incapacitated and he had two glasses so i couldn't sleep all night and things were becoming problematic i was wheezing i was coughing and then my face began to swell and itch like crazy crazy swelling so i had to phone i didn't sleep at all i had to phone one one one in this count and we're in england by the way and in this country we have to ring one one one if we're dying one one one if we think we might die in the future which is inevitable obviously um so they they said to me well they'd call me but the first thing she said actually was you need to get yourself to qa now qa's bloody miles away darlings miles away i'd have to get a ferry and a bus and i don't have my own transport and driver was off so there was no you know this was for 4 30 i think in the morning maybe five anyway i said well no i'm not going there um i'd rather die literally i would run i'd rather die in the marina than get find some sort of miraculous way of getting to the hospital so um anyway she said well the doctor is going to bring you back very soon and at that point i mean i've been up all night i was so exhausted so i did actually i was on my landline forgotten how to use a landline and it was on my chest i thought i better stay here so that i'm close to it because this is the other thing about marina life you don't get a signal it's really really difficult my neighbors are always hanging out the door i can hear all their conversations some of them make deals on the phone yes indeed anyway i digress as per usual so so uh i went to bed i thought oh do you know what soda i can't i can't sit here with this phone balancing on my chest so i went to bed and i did fall asleep and then i woke a bit later i no idea what time it was maybe nine or eight um to the doctor who was an absolute dream she was a wonderful woman and she said oh poor you boy she's just sympathetic and we need that don't we when we're feeling rotten um anyway she said i'm that i was clearly having a bad reaction to these mosquito bites and that i needed it's quite amusing she said you need to send your husband immediately to get um antihistamine she should buy all the different brands on the shelf i'm not sure why she said that um but of course i'm not sure why she said send your husband...