Wah!

I’m top to toe hurty today, partially by accident, partially by virus, partially by being female and partially by being silly. First thing this morning I was about to come downstairs with an armful of dirty washing and I dropped a sock. I bent down to retrieve it and smacked my head against the wall / top of the bannisters. And I saw stars and little cartoon bluebirds flying round my head tweeting! I still have a big old lump which is really painful to touch and a background-y headache. 🙁

The cold is definitely a cold. Not the sort you are likely to need medical attention from (although it might be if I were a bloke) and I suspect without the additional hurty stuff it would be fairly easily shrug-off-able. But I’m snotty, with a dry cough and a fair bit of acheyness and a desire to sit on the sofa with my duvet watching comforting children’s TV like Little Bear (or even childhood stuff like Bod and The Flumps) drinking warm honey and lemon.

And I’m having a real git of a period too with full on cramps and general crapness.

And finally, because of course you would if you felt like I do today, I thought I’d try and have my twice weekly walk, return some library books, get some fresh air, clear my head, exercise would do my good type thing. And briefly it probably did. But when I staggered home nearly an hour later feeling all cold sweat-like and even more hurty of head, streamy of nose and dry of throat I had a big throbbing blood blister where my trainers had rubbed -just to complete my ailments!

But that aside I’ve had quite a nice day! 🙂

This morning was a bit chaotic – Ady worked from home which always upsets the balance of things somewhat. I’m sure if he did it regularly we would find a pattern to accomodate it but on an ad hoc basis it just disturbs the peace really. Davies was playing X Box which he always takes a while to get out of the mindset of somehow with him getting irrationally upset about small things. Tarly gets all stroppy when he plays the X Box for too long as well as she loses her playmate – it’s definitely a pursuit we need to choose the right time to follow rather than have as part of our daily lives. A couple of the ebay games have arrived and I’ve had a quick test of them to check they are OK before leaving feedback. So hopefully more games will attract Tarly to play too and they can use it together. Those are put away for Christmas though. Anyway, we managed to sort ourselves out and Ady went off to work. I finally found some sellotape – the misplacement of which was what had kicked me off into being cross with the world in general and the children in particular! – and parcelled up more ebay stuff and we headed off to the post office to get them sent. The children ran ahead which meant I got to walk at a decent pace rather than toddler speed which was rather nice. They were after something to do so I tasked them with spotting all the letters from Davies’ name – that done very quickly they found the letters in GROMIT as well. I was quite impressed that I only said the letters for Gromit about twice for Davies to remember them all. He also learnt to read the word ‘WATER’ by virtue of it being on pretty much every metal cover we happened across. They also found letters on car registration plates, road name signs, house names, telegraph poles etc.

Home again for lunch and Laura’s Star which arrived from Tesco dvd rental this morning. Our 2 month free trial is about to end and I thought I’d managed another 2 months by registering in Ady’s name instead of mine but they emailed to say we’d already had a trial at this address and couldn’t have another one – clearly cleverer than education city then 😆 They seemed to like Laura’s Star – I didn’t watch it, I’m reading a book at the moment which I’m really into so I read that instead.

Inbetween all this I was doing mammoth loads of washing and pegging out having realised that we are right at the very end of drying washing outside now – unless I get it on the line first thing in the morning stuff isn’t drying out there – and then I keep leaving it out all night which means the really heavy dews soak it and it doesn’t dry again the next night. I’ll be being very frugal with both the tumble drier and the central heating this winter so I’m still pondering clothes drying logistics.

Davies then had another hour or so on the X box while I did a shmuzzle puzzle I’ve had kicking round for a while. I was surprised at how easy it was actually and I finished it, even with the assistance of the children 🙄 then they played with the salamander side of the pieces fitting them together.

I cooked them some tea, had a lengthy text message conversation with my friend Dayve from Manchester who is down this way and is coming to dinner tomorrow – and is now actually coming to stay the night too. Then Ady came home and I went on my walk. Which is sort of where we came in really.

Tomorrow we’re off to some local woods for a walk, you know the sort of thing – summer turning into autumn, collecting acorns, chestnuts and dried leaves for a collage 😆 Oh, and all my ailments will be improved too!