July

Rob went to America for a week. My mother came to stay, and to stay for A's birthday, but a family friend died the day before Rob came back so the day of his return we bought Mum a flight home and she's gone now.

While Rob was away, L had tonsillitis, E had some sort of something that made her temperature drop way down (we got it up to 36C with blankets, hot water bottles, and tea), and I shopped for L's school coat in the summer sale.

Almost as soon as Mum left, I lost my voice.

I'm going to write up some of the other stuff on Who Teaches Whom. It was pretty interesting.

Health

I can now do 6k steps a day without ill effect. I can manage a mile without a stick almost reliably. My abs are *definitely* coming back. I've discovered Hotter brand shoes, which *don't hurt*. I don't eat gluten, cows' milk, soya, or black tea, on no evidence other than how sick they seem to make me. I'm hoping that when everything else gets better I can reintroduce again.

But right now I have lost my voice.