In contrast to the previous week today has been *very* low key.
We all slept in and felt much the better for it (apart from poor Ady of course who was back to the real world again).
Once everyone was breakfasted and dressed we headed out to Boots and Sainsburys for bite treatment and food respectively. I got bitten on the back of my calf on Friday night and was aware of it being midly itchy on Saturday but yesterday morning I awoke scratching at it and it grew throughout the day until by last night it was a huge red, swollen patch with a really hard area in the middle.
This morning it had gotten worse and started weeping. I was quite concerned at the level of redness and swelling and the tight achey feeling so decided to get it looked at by the pharmacist first with a plan to get a doctors appointment if they thought I should. She actually didn’t seem that concerned and sold me some Benadryl cream (which hasn’t really done much it has to be said) and left it at that. It has slightly gone down through the day actually and has wept lots and the puncture area has gone black. I’m assuming the draining of it will be helping it and that it will be better still tomorrow.
Davies and Scarlett were bemoaning no roast dinner for the last two weeks and requested roast chicken so I bought two chickens – one to roast for them, one to do later for us and all the spare meat off the two to pick off for a curry. Ady was due home too late for me to cook and us to all eat together.
Back at home we had lunch, Davies did some xboxing, Scarlett looked through the Sky kids magazine that came in the post and her and I entered all the competitions in it online. They then both got busy with drawing and making stuff for each other and me including a note from Davies ‘To Nic, I love you, love Davies’ which he put in an envelope that he correctly addressed to me and stuck a used stamp on with sellotape before posting back through the front door to me :).
I did blogging and cooked two roast dinners – one for 5pm for children which included a choice of roast or mashed potatoes (from our allotment), peas for one, sweetcorn for the other, yorkshire puddings and chicken and stuffing balls for both. The second was served at 930pm with rather more choice of vegetables (carrots and parsnips) and gravy. Both were well received by their intended mouths :).
When Ady got home he did Mans Work in the garden securing the fence of the chickens area and putting up a corale for the new chicks to go outside. They are now fully feathered, smelly and noisy and need to be outside. There are two cockerels and five hens which is a fantastic ratio 🙂 and there are two , three and two of the various different types of breed. Sadly the 2 cockerels are the same type of fancy eggs we bought from a farm while the 5 hens are all from our own stock of cockerels and hens and therefore shouldn’t really be bred with by our cockerel I’m not sure what will become of them all yet. We could actually keep all the hens and one of the cockerels but we may decide to sell one cock and two hens as a trio (they sell well) and keep one cock and three hens ourselves. We’ll see.
Davies and Scarlett had a bath and I read them the first couple of chapters of The Story of Matthew Buzzington
I had a bath, finished cooking dinner and we watched The Day The Earth Stood Still which I think we would categorise as ‘just about ok’.
And now, fully caught up, I’m off to bed!