Affliction update first then 🙂
Tarly’s chin seems to be healing nicely. She’s not complained once about it hurting and aside from lifting her chin up to show everyone and enjoying me retelling about how brave she was she has been remarkably unfazed by it all today. It must be sore but she’s not mentioned it (am now worrying she’s lost feeling!) and even more amazingly for Tarly she has managed to not pick, touch or fiddle with the stitches.
Davies’ rash has pretty much gone. It did flare up again slightly today while out and about in the countryside but as I imagine any formal diagnosis would still result in simply administering anti histimine I’ll carry on piritoning him up whenever he is likely to have skin contact with grass.
Today we went along to a bluebell walk organised by Julie as an Activeo event. I had a vague idea of where it was in deepest Sussex and was hoping to get guided in by brown signs when I reached the general vicinity. Wrong! I was following a sort of random left, right, left, left, right pattern at the criss cross of crossroads that characterises the all but single track roads round there and the children were insisting from the back that ‘we’d been down this road before’ when suddenly Julie appeared behind me flashing and beeping! It appeared she was equally as lost as Chris always drives when they go there so we followed each other round a bit more and then started to try a 17 point turn to turn round which meant at least 8 cars appeared on a previously deserted road 🙄 including a charming old man who gave us directions and we eventually found it. On the way we had various conversations including a very interesting one about water shortages, hosepipe bans, reservoirs, how we can help to conserve water (showers, turning off taps, not flushing the loo every time etc) and why there is a water shortage.
Had a really nice walk around the lake through the bluebells. It was a safe enough environment to let the children go slighly ahead and out of sight (but not sound) which was nice for them to have a bit of freedom.
There was an amusing incident involving a cuddly Shaun the Sheep Davies had insisted on bringing along. He managed to drop him over the edge of a fenced off very steep drop down to a river. Shaun toppled head over feet in slow motion before landing with a splash in the river. It was quite fast moving but Shaun got trapped in a small corner and seemed to be holding on. I went over the fence, scrambled down the hill and laid flat next to the river to lean over and hook him out, back up the hill and over the fence again to much applause 🙂 I did have my Super T shirt on today – coincidence? I think not!
We had lunch mid way round the walk and came home via the Wizard store for small gifts for being brave / having a rash. (Aside, my Dad’s just rung to ask if ‘Tarly’s keeping her chin up?’ Ady replied ‘Oh David, you’ll have me in stitches’ groan!) and tea.
Then Davies and I went off to Badgers while Ady bathed Tarly and got all the blood from yesterday out of her hair.
Davies very happily let me drop him off and go back out to sit in the car, where I very happily sat in total peace and quiet reading my book – bliss 🙂 Apparently they learnt to count to ten in German (which he couldn’t remember but was hugely impressed that I already knew how to do and then tested me on lots of other German words, getting quite disappointed when I had to confess that the sum rememberings of 2 years of German at senior school left me able to count to 20, say ‘My Name is Nicola and I am 12 years old’ and ‘excuse me where is the hospital?’) and did lots of running around games. He seemed full of it again tonight and had really enjoyed it and actually sitting in the car for an hours peace once a week quite suits me so the arrangement seems fairly win:win to me 🙂
Tomorrow, weather permitting I have a massive dirty laundry basket full of washing to get through, I also have two CVs to get done and the rest of the book for tomorrow nights’ book club to read so we have a quiet day at home planned which I’m looking forward to. And you never know I might just get that hole in the internet plugged back up with some serious blogging again! 🙂
I’ve been worrying about that hole!
Super Nic eh?
Theme for Wednesday?
Comment by Roslyn — 15 May 2006 @ 9:36 pm
de de DAHHHH! 😉
Space is the theme.
Comment by Nic — 15 May 2006 @ 9:38 pm
Badgers is going really well!
LOL at your SuperNic rescue.
Comment by Ali — 16 May 2006 @ 9:54 am