O god the pain

I am tired and in pain and my sinuses are in a mess and my house is in its usual post-weekend state (ie trashed) and I wish the children didn't get so wound up by Rob (there's a Baby Blues cartoon about it somewhere - to carry her up to bed, Rob picked Linnea up and carried her upside-down over his shoulder! Soporific, non?!) and really, today went very well indeed but I am knackered. Wah.

So actually today wasn't all that bad

We took the girls into town so that we could all get out of the house; they're not really well enough for playgrounds yet (!!!) so a trip on the bus and then lunch out worked well. Then we bought bedlinen for single beds; soon I expect we can get rid of all the nasty 50% polyester we have, even for use in the spare room, where people aren't normally sleeping on the sheets long enough to make them smelly. We're trying to find a lamp for Linnea's high bunk bed, too, but it's tricky. And we can't really find a futon base to go underneath either. Hopefully I'll get well enough to put real effort into looking sometime soon.

At Altimus I got Emer's sleeping bag, so at least that's done, and ordered some cookware which will hopefully be large enough to cook a real meal for four of us. Getting enough pasta for everyone into our existing camping kit is hard. I think I need a bigger rucksack, too, because the girls' stuff isn't getting any smaller.