The black eye, the fish skin and the block of chocolate

I don't know what I did in my sleep on Tuesday night, but I woke up yesterday morning with a black eye. Well, actually that is a trifle dramatic, though I have been asked if that were the case several times since. When I first looked in the mirror it was a red smudge under my eye, somewhat like a blood vessel had ruptured under the skin, then it was a larger purple blob. Now it looks a bit like my tear duct is bleeding on the inside (which is quite poetic really). If it doesn't just go away the way it came I might have to investigate.

Then this morning on the way to work, boy was I glad I wasn't one step sooner. To my great astonishment a great gooey blob splattered on the footpath right in front of me. On closer inspection it was actually a very large, messy, horrible, stinky piece of fish skin. I looked up in surprise and way up in the tree above was a big fat crow, who had obviously finished with it (or maybe not). I'm not given to screaming, but I think I would at least have gasped, screamed on the inside and done a strange dance on the footpath if that unknown horror had flopped onto my head before slithering down my face. Then I might have turned around and gone home for a shower.

But since being at work I have won a block of chocolate, in that Club Chocolate add that comes up on the SMH online and takes over your computer screen, so that is something.