My fucking eyes

I just got back from Seville. I've never had eyes like it, by day 3 my face was swollen and one eye was continually weeping. Fuck you, orange blossom.

Bit of milk pre/post ride

In the eye lol? Or refreshing beverage?

vein injection, silly.

Just make sure you irradiate and spin the milk first.

Almond milk worked ok for me as well last year.
Basically seems to magically pick up all the little hairs and reduce the impact on ones breathing.
Obviously not gonna solve the problem but allowed me to work on plane trees 10hrs a day without too much suffering...

In the eye, vein or in suppository form, it all seems to work.

Cool, thanks!

Got a dose in both eyes whilst merging into a line of moving cabs tonight. Murderous tree bastards!

this morning was fucking raw, unbearable. Is it actually hayfever or just that there's loads of shit in the air? I've never had anything like this before I moved to London.

i think i swollowed a bug yesterday... And my eyes have an affinity for tree sex wee and every time i sneeze on the bike I always almost come off. fuck sneezing and riding.

Had to use my asthma pump just from walking from the bus into my office. Not liking this asthma/hayfever combo I've suddenly developed this year. Also why do most hayfever pills have fucking lactose in them, dicks.

fuck sneezing and riding.

i think you're doing it wrong mate

also after years of being allergic to absolutely everything i'm now firmly medically immunosuppressed and enjoying my first summer with nearly no sneezing, coughing, wheezing, crying, marshy sniffing etc

i strongly encourage the use of fexofenadine and avamys (it's almost worth the nosebleeds)

and goggles, obvs

Nothing London can throw at you is as bad as this stuff:

Me and a friend once accidentally got into a field of it and spent the next 12 hours stumbling around with streaming, strawberry-coloured eyeballs

^ So true! I am just thankful that it's all gone to seed round here (Cambs/Beds border).

Used to live in the middle of fields of rape - never had any issue with it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

i like strawberries...

That yellow shit never does anything to me. London's trees/generally shithouse air quality does.

Grew up surrounded by rape fields, no problems. Move to London, develop asthma and hayfever.

My hayfever was always triggered by grass pollen - June is hell (yes I grew up surrounded by pasture and hay meadows).

London seems to have triggered allergies to mosquito bites and shoe polish. My shoes are fucking disgraceful these days

Yup. I was in Warwickshire last week and I was glad to be back in London. I can deal with the odd field OK but about 50% of fields there seem to be rape at the moment.

Linseed (the blue stuff) is even worse.

Dear god today is bad my fucking eyes the goggles they do nothing

Finally started to use cycling glasses on my commute, after 5 years of burning eyes it's a revelation. I now look like a full on roadie douche (probably because Rudy Projects are the only glasses that fit and they don't do subtle) - but what the hell - they work. Also gives me an excuse for more ebay bargain trawling

I also finally caved in and bought a cheap (but well reviewed) pair from Decathlon. No more streaming eyes or extracting bits of vegetation - well worth the price of looking like a complete bell chief. I'm already considering an upgrade to something more flash...it's a slippery slope

The skylights in the office are open and directly above my desk, I can see the shit waft down in front of me, absolute hell.

The plane tree sex wee season seems to be starting again. God help us.