Salt Lamp
July 18, 2007
I've been having awful problems with bronchitis. Every time I go back home to Mull to pack it comes on again and I start coughing and wheezing all night.
Yesterday I walked along to a shop that sells all sorts of lovely carvings and scarves from Africa. I remembered going in there with a friend and wondering what the odd looking lamps around the place were. Yesterday I realised that they must be these salt lamps I have been reading about on the internet, and so I walked down there to have a look at them.
The shop was having a half price sale of everything and so aswell as buying three lots of handmade paper, which I will keep for presents, I bought a salt lamp for fifteen pounds. I should of course have picked it up before I bought it because it was decidedly heavy, and I was pleased to get back to the flat. It was also warm, as it had been switched on in the shop, and so walking back in the hot weather, holding it against me, was like carrying a very heavy hot water bottle.
I am very pleased with it and have transferred it from here to the bedroom and back again, so I shall buy another one at the weekend. I'll ask my son to come along and carry it for me though as he is much stronger than me.
The colour, a sort of peachy orange, is very cheering and I can definitely feel a beneficial effect. There is a calming, fresh feeling around it. It may be imagination but that's fine - it still cheers me up. I won't really know how well it has affected my bronchitis though till the next time I visit Mull.