Poor Wee Scone

Excuse the radio silence. Yoda has been down with something for almost a week now. Hardly eaten a bite and high temperature for most of the time.

We took him to the out-of-hours doctor who looked him over.

“If it’s Pig Puke then we’re too late to give him Tamiflu.” she pondered.

“… and if it’s not?” I [...]

First Gig

We’ve been holidaying. Not away-away, just on holiday – at home like. Due to recession, job commitments and rather tedious hospital appointments we’d decided we’d stay at home and if the weather was grand, venture to a Norfolk beach.

Splendid weather did indeed appear but not on any day we had clear for beach activities. Instead [...]

The Big White Telephone

Well at 09:09 09/09/2009 I called into work sick. A nice way to spend your birthday, taking a sicky* but for the fact I was actually sick. Well sick is only half of it. There is a certain Newtonian law I will not go further into but lets just say every action has an equal [...]

Last of the Summer Wine

We packed the nipper off to bed early. Not before he had a chance to unload a wheelbarrow full of hedge clippings into the flower beds, throwing each handful with his new cryptic cry of “mucca, mucca”.

The weather has been great recently, not too hot but lovely and sunny enough for us to eat outside [...]

The Silver Bullet

“… I prefer the term shaman myself.” he babbled ushering us down into his hut.

I’d been waiting two months for this appointment and was pretty much at the end of my tether. I’d managed not to directly take any days of work due to pain or fatigue until that week, but after the weekend [...]

Nothing Ventured

Well the Folk Festival went ok. I can’t admit to watching any acts that thrilled us particularly apart from The Hot Club of Cowtown (or the The Cow Pats of Club Town as L called them) – they were certainly shit hot and smokin’!

Jim Moray played a couple of good sets, coming across as a [...]

Floored

Sorry I’ve been quiet but I’ve been floored since Monday with what appears to be a migraine. No headache but some other weird symptoms. I’ve been sleeping a lot since then, feeling that sort of fatigue you get after a big shock like a death in the family. It is Friday now and I’m still [...]

Smashing

Action packed last few days. I discovered on Friday I’d been taking half the maximum dose of paracetamol/Ibuprofen. Doubling this seems to have made a difference and I can now function a lot better. I celebrating with a trip to Tescoland yesterday and bought a skip full of each. However, it seems that bulk [...]

Terribly, Terribly, Flat

… Or so said Noel Coward of Norfolk anyway. However, we didn’t find it so when we drove up at the weekend. I’m not saying there were hills but compared to the billiard table of ThereBeDragons Fen and Tescoland, Norfolk is positively mountainous.

We drove up to visit friends from York who were house sitting near [...]

Pig Puke

It has arrived finally in the village. Lets just hope the little one doesn’t get it.

Meanwhile university colleges are shutting left right and centre with many cases.

Puts my woes into perspective a bit.