And still they come

[ailbhe]

Illness

The antibiotics seem to be helping my chest - in spite of terrifying one of my guests (I had a trail of ranting guests today, most unusual, more later) by laughing until I stopped breathing, I am feeling much better.

Hurrah for antibiotics!

Boo, boo, hiss for antibiotics! I have a cyst in my earlobe, an itch where I would expect to find thrush, and an upset in my tummy.

Visitors

Guests arrived and ranted - in all, we covered traffic, roadworks, guests, hosts, doctors, midwives, consultant obstetricians, La Leche League (I wasn't ranting about that, because I haven't seen them being militant) and stuff I've forgotten.

Then people came to pick up Freecycle stuff - the house is getting emptier! People are taking out stuff away! We don't need to landfill it - something our little hoarding souls won't really allow us to do. One of them ranted abou traffic too.

The guest without a baby of her own dealt beautifully with my having one - treated Linnea like a real person rather than a pet or a germ, which is all I ask, really. Since I don't coo over every baby I meet - they're all so inferior to Linnea what's the point? (ask yourself: Is she joking?) - why should someone who doesn't even claim to like children? Acting like she believed my baby is a human being with all the rights human beings generally have was lovely. Though there was the occasional terrified rictus. I make them too, sometimes. Linnea has that effect on people.

One of the guests with a baby had brought said aforementioned baby to have the MMR jab and left her housekeys behind. Then the baby fell over while pushing Linnea brutally to the floor (she was unharmed) and cut his upper lip on his teeth. The blood was copious and the sound of the impact was alarmingly loud.

Pomes

The journal that started off being Linnea's proxy journal and turned into my Linnea Pomes journal has been renamed to lnc due to recent liberalisation of Livejournal policy. I don't know whether it's a good thing overall but I benefit from it.

(In other Linnea news, today she found a key on the table and tried to use it in the front door. She's so clever!)

Travel plans

My and Linnea's summer itinerary is as follows:

Fri 03 Jun Not at home, in the UK
Sat 04 Jun Not at home, in the UK
Sun 05 Jun Not at home, in the UK

Fri 24 Jun Travelling to Dublin
Sat 25 Jun Attending a wedding in Dublin - no calls please
Sun 26 Jun In Dublin
Mon 27 Jun Travelling to Aran
Tue 28 Jun UNTIL
Tue 19 Jul In Aran, on holiday, relaxing! No computer!
Wed 20 Jul Travelling to Dublin
Thu 21 Jul In Dublin
Fri 22 Jul In Dublin
Sat 23 Jul Travelling home!

Fri 29 Jul Travel to CCDE
Sat 30 Jul Attend CCDE
Sun 31 Jul Travel home

Please note that Rob is travelling from Aran - Dublin - home on the 9th and 10th of July.

So I'll have only three whole weeks with my mother instead of the four we had originally hoped for, but the wedding and CCDE are not movable feasts, so there you go. I am aware that it's only a combination of good luck and very careful forward planning that makes this possible at all.

Comments

Inc

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOO!!! I'm trying to *cut down* my friends list. EEEEEE!!!

I can't resist.

Re: Inc

[ailbhe]

Hee! You must comment on any you like. It's a RULE.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Mouths bleed spectacularly, don't they. YoungBloke's damaged his a couple of times, quite copiously. Of course, the saliva doesn't help matters.

Keys - YB has realised that Daddy waves the car key at the car and gets in, so he now waves keys at doors as well as trying to get them into locks.

[mikz.livejournal.com]

I take it CCDE isn't some Crazy variant of our place, CDE..? =) Pity. It would be good to see you again.