OK, for your edited highlights 😉
Went over to see Jan and family, who were hosting the female members of the puddle family and visited by Kirsty and co. That made a total of 9 children and 5 adults (not counting Jonathan who was in the building, but working upstairs) and was an extremely pleasant day. The three eldest girls played together most of the day really well – I’d been a little apprehensive because Big does not like to share C, but it appears that the puddles are now acceptable playmates as well, so it was fine. The house and garden are plenty big enough for them all to rattle round witha bit of space if necessary, so it worked well.
There was a small amount of talking about books, in and amongst dealing with the inevitable drinks, food, bumps, bee stings, nappy moments and so on, but all in all I just found it a very relaxing space and group of ppl.
Very late home after we stayed for tea as well, and Big had a bit of a meltdown at having to leave C (wanted to go back tomorrow, not happening!) but otherwise, a fab day. Thank you all.
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6 responses to “a long day”
EEkkkk, who got stung???
Twas Ams. Nasty moment as Merry thought there would be a possibility that she would be allergic, but turned out not and an ice cube and some bicarb (I think) calmed it down remarkably well. Within minutes she was back outside barefeet, sigh, despite that being the way it had happened. You just can’t tell some ppl 😉
Bless her. Merry, was this you over-worrying again 😉 or has she been stung and reacted badly before. I blame programmes like 999 for the worry about anaphylactic shock. The number of deaths is single figures in the UK iirc. Wasps are more likely to cause a bad reaction than bees too. I know all this ‘cos I looked some info up after being stung a week or two ago. One of my old colleagues (and Alison’s) who I liked very much and kept in touch with died from a wasp sting while on holiday in Greece 🙁 She was the partner of somone who has saved millions of lives with discoveries in relation to smoking, cancer….it just goes to show the fragility of life…..
I think that Merry has answered this on her blog – what with the asthma and eczema (sp?) I think there *is* a higher risk of allergies. Thank my lucky stars that so far the worst we’ve had is a few hives after lavender exposure.
Oh it was me overworrying. Ever since the chicken pox thing i find it a bit hard to assume that Ammi won’t completely over-do the “normal reaction to normal event” type malarky. An understandable reaction i think given the “if anything is going to stop septaecaemia these drugs probably will” 12 hours overnight i spent on my own with a seriously ill baby in hospital.
I don’t watch 999 – i have an allergy to over dramatic re-enactments of people being squashed in car accidents. 😉
I can’t watch Casualty for similar reasons!