No no no no no no no

No sleeping again last night, with added screaming tantrums. No idea what's up with Emer because she's fine during the day. She has asked NOT to leave the house today. I have no coffee. I'm going to have my first cup of tea soon. I've mixed up the bara brith Rob prepped last night and put it in the oven.

Augh.

Hand foot and mouth

The toddler who visited us yesterday today has Hand, foot and mouth disease. "Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease usually start to appear three to seven days after being infected with the virus." Oh, and "The virus stays in the faeces for about four weeks after the person has recovered. It is therefore vital that adults and children wash their hands thoroughly after going to the toilet, or handling nappies." Lovely.

I shall keep an eye out for Emer getting EVEN MORE cranky, then.

Coffee Delivery

A few minutes ago the doorbell rang and Maria handed me a cup of coffee from the Workhouse Coffee Shop₁₆₉. She didn't come in as they were on their way to the post office and we are grossly antisocial today, but she is my hero.

I just finished mixing today's bread₁₇₀ and now I'm sitting here with the coffee, feeling luxurious and liked₁₇₁.

Mean, nasty fuckers

I'm furious. Some shit with more muscle than heart picked up the kids' snowman and fired it at the glass on the front door; it hit at five feet up from the inside, so about 5'4" from the outside. It was loud and frightening and they were gone by the time I'd worked out what had happened and stepped out to look for them. I am furious. I'm pleased the glass didn't break - I did think it had cracked but it hadn't - but the kids aren't thrilled and I'm really angry because *I* know it wasn't a force of nature, it was a person.

I have some of the loveliest friends

This morning I called Maria to tell her we'd been exposed to hand, foot and mouth disease, and also had a morning grumble about the fact that we had no coffee in the house. So she brought me a takeaway coffee in passing. Then some lowlife threw a lump of frozen snow at the front door and I spoke to Nicki on Facebook about it and she popped around with a couple of bars of chocolate₁₇₂. And then everyone came to play₁₇₃.

Then Rob went out in the snow to get the groceries, and observed one crash and partook of none, and while he was out I had a bath with Emer and got us out and wrapped us up in towels and turned on the light and blew the fuse in the front room. So then I stumbled around looking for candles and matches and found them and got Linnea into bed and read her her story and so on. When Rob came home he fixed the fuse while I kept Emer busy and now both kids are in bed and we need to clean up for the BfN people coming tomorrow morning.

Oh, we still need to replace the bulb in the front room. I tried but couldn't find a live bulb which fit. Perhaps Rob will have better luck.