Eldest is at home and in bed with swollen glands and a very sore throat.

Poot is home and in bed with a very sore throat and a temperature.

Morier is home and in bed looking pale and feeling awful.

I'm home and writing this whilst in enough pain to cry and sniffling with a cold.

This has not been a good week.

I know it's early but I've been thinking about this years Yule party. I've hosted one for the past couple of years and it's always a relaxing and fun event for me even if it's also very hard work. Last year the theme was 'Red', we invited all the guests to wear red clothes, but very few of my friends seemed to go for it. This year I've been ( Read more... )

Today I am still very heart sore, still feeling broken inside, but I'm coping just a little better than yesterday. On Monday Mona, my darling feline companion, passed over to the Summerlands. She was 15 years old and very poorly but put up a good fight and she stayed with us longer than we expected her to. I am still crying intermittently but I ( Read more... )

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Wow. That was kinda busy! The past 2 weeks seem to have flown by and it's trying to catch up with me in the space of a few days. We took the kids off to Cornwall for a few days, thanks for looking after the jungle Whiterose, and came home shattered but happy. It was fun to take the tents and camp out in the middle of nowhere. We thought it would be ( Read more... )

Updating is a slow process for me. I tend to think about what I'll write for a few days before I actually get around to making a coherent post. Sometimes I write a small list of things that I want to add in to my post so I don't forget stuff. So here's a post based on the things that I've had rattling around in my head for the past week or so ( Read more... )

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!Under no circumstances, no matter how desperate you are, EVER claim Working Families Tax Credits. They WILL shaft you. They WILL overpay you then demand the money back. They WILL ensure that your life is hell when trying to get through to them ( Read more... )

August is normaly a busy time for me. With the Curious Pastimes main event at the end of the month there is normally a frenzy of kit making, packing and baking to do. Not this year though, this year me and Morier have a taken a year out in order to rethink why we LARP and what the future holds for us in respect to it. While everyone I know is ( Read more... )

I got up, threw up, sat down.

I declare today a Duvet Day as I'm in no fit state for anything else.

That is all.

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