Oh, daisy - i?m so sorry. You have so much on your plate now ? thinking of you and your family.
ladyt - i knew VC at school ? she was the year above me and friends with my then boyfriend ? had tea at her house once. she seemed a v tricky person at school from watching from the year below, but when i met her with the then bf, she was charm itself. Have always found her writing v funny and insightful.
Re: QT ? will be watching if i can keep my eyes open. I believe freedom of speech is more important than anything. I don?t think the bbc could have done anything else really ? if our legal system allows this party to exist, then the bbc must give it room to air. And hopefully they will expose themselves for the bigoted bonkers loons they are.
kayz - troubadour is lovely. You?ll have a great time and i?m sure they do breakfast.
jj - i had such a thing about formula, until i kept seeing my expressed milk poured down the sink as we tried and tried to get her to take a bottle. So i went out and bought some follow on powder, tried it and now she?s got the hang of the bottle (and yes, siree, she downed 8 oz today no probs), i simply couldn?t be bothered to go back to expressing. I bf morning and night, and if we?re out and about and i haven?t prepared anything, but tend to give a bottle of formula mid afternoon if we?re at home. Oh, and i?ve given up sterilising as well. indith - my dh has successfully given madam a bottle before bed ? it was only our worry which prevented us from trying ? in the end, she went down no probs.
Well, fil is now back home from hospital and we are going up to n wales on sat. they said the operation would take 2 hours and he?d be back after 5 days. In the end the operation took 8 hours and he was in for 2.5 weeks. i don?t think he?s had an easy run of it. They told him he wouldn?t have a colostomy bag, but now he?s got a ?temporary? one. We just don?t know what?s going on ? whether it is/was cancer, whether the bag will be permanent. And all the way through mil was wanging on about how difficult it was for her. She is contrasting it with her operation for kidney cancer 6 years ago ?i mean, i had open surgery, so it was much harder for me ? d?s had keyhole, so the recovery is much easier? ? honestly, i feel like shouting at her so so much. Don?t worry, i won?t.
Re: stairgates ? we still haven?t put them up (woman who lived here before us left them in the loft for us, although no idea if there are any instructions for them), even though madam made her supervised way to the top yesterday. It was gorgeous to see her triumphant face at the top.
kayz and kiwi - good luck for tonight.
Re: books ? i loved reading, read avidly, did an English degree and now i?ve basically given it up. It?s ridiculous ? i simply can?t concentrate on a book to save my life. I feel dreadful, especially being married to a writer who is the most voracious reader. I know i?ve got to get back into the swing of it, but find it a bit overwhelming. Did anyone else ever go into a bookshop and get panicked thinking ?i?ll never read all of these books, so why bother even starting?? or am i weird?
Madam has had her first proper fever today. She was super grumpy and i couldn?t work out why ? she refused supper, and then she became very cuddly, and nestled into me and we sat and watched cbeebies for 2 hours together. She was so quiet, barely moved, but kept watching the screen. She was so hot, poor lamb, and this was the first time i?d successfully used the ear thermometer on her. So calpol has hopefully done its trick and she is in bed. She went to sleep without a peep, but has grizzled a couple of times since then. If she really is ill tonight, i suppose playing hardball will go out of the window. That?s the problem with playing hardball ? when do you relent and do what your heart says: pick them up, cuddle them and tell them everything is going to be ok. It is so hard. But am so thankful she hasn't been properly ill. counting blessings.