Not directly connected 😉
For the rest of the week, Small amused himself on the computer mainly. Occasionally this was very irritating, depending on what website he chose to focus on, but most of the time, I could see pretty direct benefits, and he explored a lot of different things, including some excellent Lazy town based games that had him leaping round the living room trying to be Sportacus 🙂 . Our only area of difficulty was getting him into bed and asleep at night, but it wasn’t a major problem, and I really enjoyed getting back to reading to him – we’re about half way through Kensuke’s Kingdom
now.
The excitement to the week was delivered by Tim on Weds afternoon going down with flu like symptoms. As the NHS is no longer doing swab tests, we’ve no way of knowing whether it really is/was the dreaded swineflu, but we had to assume it was, and so I had a lovely chat with one of our GPs on Thurs morning.
Tim was out of it for over 24 hours – but this is what his system does, he keels over and sleeps, and ran a pretty high temp during it. Once I managed to get him onto regular paracetamol and drinks it came down under control and I think he started feeling more comfortable, but he was very rough for a couple of days, and is only really starting to recuperate properly now, nearly 5 days on.
I’m watching and waiting to see if either of Small or me go down with any symptoms – so far so good. I had a headache and stressy stomach yesterday, but it was headed off with an hours lie down, and think it was more closely related to the convoluted arrangements we put in place to retrieve Big.
That was amusing. L took her by bus, two trains and a taxi to Merry’s cousin’s house, where Merry was coincidentally going this weekend anyway to pick up a rabbit, then Merry brought her down to her house and I met them there for the final leg of the journey. Cut the driving down from 8 hours or more for me to just over 3, much more manageable, and I managed half an hour sitting in the sun outside a services reading a book too. Result!
Big was very pleased to be home. It was after 11 last night before they both calmed down and went to sleep, so I’m expecting some fallout later on today as the tiredness hits in.
And in the other news of the week, I sourced a two day java contract through a friend, although now that I’ve read the latest Dept of Health advice for pregnant women, I’m wondering whether I should risk it.
Honestly. I don’t quite see how I’m supposed to isolate myself and then a vulnerable baby for the duration of this pandemic, which we are being told could last 5 years. And I shouldn’t let my other children go anywhere where they might pick it up, so school is right out isn’t it? Just as well they’re home-educated really 😉
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