First, the backstory:

In October 2013 I managed to get whooping cough. That's a whole story unto itself, nonetheless, as coughing generally resulted in asphyxiation and unconsciousness, trying manage anything that might trigger coughing was a priority…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago ...yesterday.

News from the Canadian camp on Salisbury Plain that I almost missed yesterday:

• Forces are banned from corresponding directly or indirectly with press
• Hailstorm…

Bloody fucking whooping cough... I finished off a ten-day course of antibiotics Monday. The bacteria that caused this is quite dead and gone, so I am not contagious, and technically I am not so much "sick" at this point as "injured." Random cells in…