Film fest and tip tastic day today.
We had a lazy start and all ate breakfast still curled up on sleeping bags watching ET on video.
This morning we had the most excellent journey to the skin clinic to have my patches removed. I only showed two allergic reactions – a biggish one to nickel, which I knew I was allergic to anyway, I can’t wear cheapo jewelry and used to even react to the inside of my jeans button, clasp on bras and the back of my watch face. I don’t anymore (not sure what’s changed) but that was the most itchy patch and the doctor swabbed it with steroid cream. The other reaction was to fragrance mix one. The patch for fragrance mix two had fallen off on Sunday morning and as there was no reaction underneath and we couldn’t find any tape we didn’t bother to fix it back on, they suspect I may have reacted to that one too if left on though.
That both does, and does not help really. Fragrance can be found in the biggest list of things including cosmetics make up, hair products, deodrant, shampoo, conditioner, bubble bath, soaps, perfume and body spray, room spray, air freshener, scented candles, washing powder, cleaning products and more. So that’ll be all sorts of everything then. Which if I spent most of my time with a reaction I could understand but given it seems to only flare up at certain times and I have already spent the last 2 years racking my brains to try and work out what might have triggered it I am still none the wiser really. My long term plan is to go back on the antihistimines daily for now to try and keep it under control, rest assured it is not something I am eating so I am unlikely to have a serious allergic reaction with throat swelling and once I am properly settled start working through all possibilities as and when I next have an episode of Nicface. I can try my own patch testing, one product at a time and take it from there to try and identify it.
So, a rather bogus exercise in all – I’m now allergic to cats, latex, nickel and fragrance. Officially 🙂
Back at home we loaded the car up and took the first load of the day to the tip. Our tip has been revamped while we’ve been away and is now very good at recycling almost all of the waste taken there. This heartens me 🙂
We had lunch (home made bread and fruit) and then loaded the car up for a second time. Ady and I did some wardrobe smashing with a sledgehammer – always nice and theraputic 🙂 and the kids played with the chickens.
Second tip run done we loaded the car for the third time with stuff from the loft for storage and took it over to my parents’. We had a cup of tea and chat with Dad who is here tomorrow painting and saw Frazer who arrived home from work while we were there.
Back home again we put on Men in Black and all half watched that while cooking dinner, lighting the fire, having baths and eating dinner. The kids declared it pretty good and want to see MIB II which I think we have somewhere. I caught up on phonecalls too – one to Julie to rearrange Thursday when we were supposed to be seeing them and one to my Granny just to bring her up to date on what we’re doing. Ady communicated with a couple of his friends by text – he is less good at making arrangements to catch up and fitting them into our week.
We then debated another film and went for Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure which I’d picked up on video ages ago after being reminded of it for some reason and thinking Davies would like it. The kids took a little while to warm to it and even I was wondering if it would actually stand the test of time but it came through well and by the end we were all calling each other Dude and air guitaring. Must track down Waynes World and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey…
The kids have been mithering us to watch a Shrek Halloween short dvd they have for ages so we agreed to put that on once everyone was in bed and did so. Davies was cold so I heated up one of his wheat bag teddies in the microwave – these small things make camping out in our own house feel incredibly luxurious 🙂