wheat heat

My shoulder is bad again. Not bad enough to be a real problem, but enough for me to want a heat pack when I get into the office on a cold morning. Hot water bottles are good, and I have a hot water bottle in a furry cover in my desk as an Official Disability Adjustment, but the problem is that I have to *hold* it on my shoulder with the other hand, which does not do much for my ability to work in the meantime. So I finally went and got myself a wheat-filled microwave heat pack.

I'd never bothered with these, because they have a reputation for cooling down very quickly. This reputation appears to be well-deserved. It doesn't seem to hold usable heat for more than about twenty minutes before needing to be re-stoked, which is a bit of a faff. On the other hand, a floppy sausage shape stays draped in the correct place over my shoulder without having to be held there.

A slightly fuzzy, extremely purple fabric sausage. There were pink ones as well, but I did not think that an extremely pink fabric sausage would be a good idea as a shoulder decoration. Not given my colleagues' sense of humour. :-)