Oink!

Yeah. Not so cool...turns out it is H1N1...

It's like having human flu but the gubmint say I shouldn't leave the house. So Rosie (and Flo) very kindly picked up some drugs for me, viz:

You say hello

I wave bye bye...

It has been an odd week. I felt a bit "not guri" on Wednesday (which I put down to poor blood sugar) but having rushed back to pick up Flo, cook dinner &c, I eventually spent the evening throwing up and attempting to go to bed at 8pm...[draws veil]

Thursday was much the same, though I spent a very strange ~10 hours lucid dreaming/hallucinating while twitching and sweating in bed....Friday I felt like someone had driven through me with a truck, but managed to hold it together enough to look after Flo eventually.

We spent Saturday doing our usual thing (alien tree hunt, cafe for cake, playground, park, trampoline) and observed an afternoon-long kinda fight thing between Moshi and "Tabby" (a decidedly un-tabby cat recently arrived, that believes it has rights on Moshi's yard, food & bed....Flo named him...though he is sometimes called "Sparkles", depending on her mood). Seriously, we came back from the park and he was asleep in Flo's bed while Moshi sat on the window sill and watched him! He'd already eaten her leftover breakfast....stupid cat!

Dancin' to the dub while we await CAKE!

"Look dad, I am a picture!"

Communing with the cats

I lunched-out my Saturday night (thanks, illness) and slept another 10 hours...Flo, Es, Ian and I did the "standard Sunday" today: Boston Tea Party for breakfast (number 2), Ashton Court (as opposed to Blaise Castle), Ice-Cream, more Ashton Court, my house...wherein I made coffee for adults, frozen banana pancakes for children and hilarity, newspapers, ipods, chumby & some shouting ensued.

Esmae is rowing the "boat" to America....

Now. If you will excuse me, I'll go back to my two current books: one apparently about unicorns and ninjas & the other about the fuckin fuck word you fucks!

's'no disease like snow disease, i know

Got snow?






In other news, I took Flo for a belated dose of vaccines today...check it:

• Measles
• Mumps
• Rubella
• Diphtheria
• Tetanus
• Whooping Cough
• Polio (booster)

These were delivered in 2 shots. The 1st didn't even cause a flinch (she was still chuffed to be stripped off to her vest and warm, plus hiding her eyes behind my hand)...the second...not so good.

But the tears stopped as soon as she got a sticker (~10 seconds). The problem was about an hour later, having to interact with anyone that didn't understand "how poorly my arms are".

That's my girl!!

Pony Up (My Lovely Lady Lumps)

As promised...here's a partial update on the latest news.

Ride!

Everybody poops!

Yikes!

Yes, that motherfucker on my neck is a huge sebaceous cyst (yummy)...It took 2 operations (minor, local anaesthetic jobs) to get it clear...there's now a non-infected lump on my neck which'll get yoiked out in the New Year.

Awesome!

Illness

I spent yesterday sat (or laying) on the sofa in front of a fire alongside Mosh.

Rough.

Flo's got impetigo (the grubber little bugger) so she's being doused with antifungal soap every half an hour and admonished not to touch anyone.

Maybe bedrest?



Or cake?

A Cold...

...I has one. Flo was refusing to let me take photos of her yesterday, so I took advantage of the straps on her booster seat!

The French Disease

So. I've been ill...it seems I picked up some kind of foul french flu while in Paris and it pretty much wiped me out since Thursday last week.

Here's a little video for you. Make sure you have the sound turned way up...the video starts about 30 minutes through the session...it went on for another 30 after.

I had a killer headache...but she don't care!

UPDATE: YouTube is being Teh Ghey....I'll get it sorted. Sorry...You can download it from here (half meg MP4 file).

L'ill Communication

This hat will save me from Daddy's fiendish computer network!

Ill Lil....the 1st projectile vom in 8 months!


I don't care if you want me to put it on 'correctly'; Windy Miller is getting pissed on homebrew!

Luckily, Granny and Grandad were here and brought a lion hat!

Last night and early this morning was fun, but today she needed lots of cuddles...once her stomach was calmer and she was settled in the crook of my arm..we both snoozed with Japanese cartoons* on in the background.



* You can only watch Oliver Postgate stuff for so long....it was Studio Ghibli as I remember, though we both slept through it...