Rain, Rain, Go Away

So the bee sting became a little more problematic than I initially thought. I had a big exciting allergic reaction to it that took about 40 hours to fully develop. My arm swelled up to a ridiculous size, and redness started to spread out from the sting until there was a bright red circle all around it with a radius of 2-3 inches. I ended up at the doctors twice for that ailment... I'm really glad they don't charge for doctor visits here.

On a lighter note, my watch arrived! I left it at a hotel in Golspie a few weeks ago. I called the owner to confirm they had it, then checked with him to see if he would mail it to me if I sent  him a 5£ note and my address. That all went off without a hitch, and my watch of 9+ years and I were reunited.

So, back to archaeology for those of you who don't have any investment in my personal problems: It was WET and COLD on site today. While we were waiting/hoping for the rain to desist, we went to the Ring of Brodgar. It is every bit as grand and impressive as it was last year. Some of us decided to walk back to site from the Ring, and it was still raining when we got there. We sat around in the rain getting cold. Our site director, Nick Card decided it was time to give up and everyone working in Trench P went home, but the bull-dozer supervisors we have in Trench T kept working, so we minions did too. I was lucky enough to be in the house working on some preliminary plans for my project, but the kids in the trench got good and muddy.

Tonight we got to go to a lecture in Kirkwall about emergency excavations that are currently being done at Swandro on an island to the north of here. It was a really neat lecture. The site was exposed by tidal erosion and is still obviously effected by it. They are trying to preserve and record as much information as possible before the site is lost to the sea, but funding is a problem, as is usual in archaeology.