Show Post-poned (Ear Candling?)
I expect you're (all) on the edge(s) of your seat(s) waiting to read my report on the Burwarton Show which I promised about a week ago. Unfortunately, the power supply for my laptop seems to have given up the ghost, and that's where the pictures are - it wouldn't work so well without them. I'll get it sorted next week hopefully.
The computer I'm using at this precise moment is my parents', they paid £20 for it and there's no way I can connect my camera to it.
So, one little question for those who might know - and for those who don't but would like to have a guess, a prize for the most creative maybe. I was waiting outside a baker's shop in Ludlow yesterday which was opposite a place where they do things like ear/body-piercing, tattoos and alternative therapies (in a very upper-middle-class kind of way, not your typical tattoo parlour). In the course of my waiting, I perused the signs in the surrounding shops and this particular shop's sign along with various types of piercing and body-art advertised 'ear candling'. Various images spring to mind but I'm sure they can't be right. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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yeah i think i actually can - this might be one of those rare moments when i show some intellegence - in other words my dad's an audiologist.
its a treatment to relieve something called 'glue ear' which sounds utterly unpleasant. you lie on your side and someone sticks a hollow candle in your ear and lights it. its a pressure thing - the air heats and its supposed to help. they did it in that little new age healers at the top end of funmurry with the dream catchers in the window.
oh but the thing is sometimes the wax can run into ear and cause all sorts of nasty little problems. its not recommended by leading audiologists (my dad!) much better to hold a warm damp cloth over the ear or sleep with the sore ear on a covered hot water bottle.
Thanks very much, I feel educated now.
I never knew your dad was an audiologist - nor that such a thing existed!
glad to be stepping successfully into my role as an educator
karen who you knew once upon a time, tried to teach to drive and then decided to fall out of contact with
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