In three months, I lost the 30 pounds, but regained enough control over my sensibilities to allow whole days to pass without viewing the Virgin Islands' magnificent nimbus clouds as coconut mousse, or imagining people strolling down the beach as grotesque subjects of an Arcimboldo painting with curly red-pepper noses, dripping grape coiffures, watermelon stomachs and carrot finger tips.
Then she started again, and by the end of three rounds Baszler's headgear had been knocked around so much she could barely see, and her nose was dripping blood onto the mat.
Slowly my throat tightened as if I'd swallowed a ball of cat hair, and my nose started dripping.
They shiver and twinkle like silver tinsel above us as we head out into the incredible cold, our noses already dripping, our bones beginning to ache.
It had been yet another miserable, nose-dripping, red-eyed spring a couple of years ago, when I finally went to see an allergy specialist.
Berlin knows the value of star power, even as the nose-dripping February freeze keeps it from Croisette levels of glamour; the more challenging reaches of its programme serve as the salt beneath the celebrity snowfall.
I grew up making small square bales and was miserable every summer, between runny eyes, a dripping nose, and wheezing lungs.
For me the monarch becomes Scary Queen, with a droopy, gloopy eye, a dripping nose and something rather dreadful about the mouth.
As my wet hair, teary eyelashes and dripping nose froze, the only thought in my cold brain was Titanic's Rose and Jack freezing in the Atlantic Ocean.
