Listy post

[ailbhe]

• The Irish Roman Catholic Priests Sex Scandal: Nothing will happen, really. Perhaps the end of the lies will help some people. But I can't imagine there being any prosecutions. I feel terribly sorry for my aunts the nuns, who knew even less about all this than my mother did all the while it was going on.


• Us being ill: We left the house today and went to Moondogs, which was an incredibly long walk for Emer. I think she's not wholly recovered but definitely getting there. Then I spent the evening being very very dizzy, so I had to eat salty food. That's been happening more and more; I need to speak to the doctor and meanwhile get more salt into my diet. Perhaps we'll start putting some in the cooking sometimes?


• What we're doing: This weekend is a big DIY weekend and then we're going to clean the house. Also, we have to sell two dressers, a chest-of-drawers/changing table/bookshelf unit, and Rob's Unseen University model. They have outlived their usefulness. Might wait until the New Year though, because I'm not looking forward to the whole clearing-and-photographing-and-so-on.


• Emer's bedtimes are going very well. We're all free by nine pm most nights, and she's waking less and less overnight too. Earlier in the mornings though, unsurprisingly.


• This is the hospital Rob refused to allow me in when I was pregnant with Linnea, and according to Rob it's the one we brought Linnea to when she was sick in the night once, when we were in Essex. We're not hugely surprised by what has been found. Though I'm not sure I'd be surprised if it had been found in our local hospital either (actually, I would - I've spent a lot of time there, after all).


• Linnea wants Rice Pops for breakfast sometime. We were never allowed Rice Krispies because they were a waste of money, so I'll definitely be getting some for her. She has started drinking all the milk left in her cereal bowl now so breakfasts are harmonious again.