Flu drags on

The thing with this flu is you feel a bit better and decide to go out. Then you feel really tired and washed out. Then your cough gets worse.

I will eventually get better I suppose.

Not such a fun time

Sooo...

Thursday last week (as in January 25th) I woke up feeling a bit headachey and under the weather. I got up ok though and did a few things throughout the day.

When I woke on Friday there was an axe in my head.

And I was shivering with the cold.

Even under a doubled over duvet, four blankets and wearing a fleecy dressing gown and nightie I was freezing.

The reality that I'd got flu began to seep into my aching brain.

I spent Friday and Saturday alternately sleeping and counting the minutes until my next dose of painkiller. I was supposed to be going to a healing course on Saturday but that went out of the window (as they say).

On Sunday P went to church leaving me in bed. I managed to get out to the bathroom then felt very sick and faint. At this point I should have sat or lain down on the floor until I felt better but I just wanted to get back to bed. As I got onto the bed everything went black in front of my eyes.

Anyway since then it has been a slow recovery. After a while of being up I start to feel dizzy, I have a horrible cough which is gradually lessening and I feel low and grumpy (which happens to me after flu). I missed church again this morning but P picked me up for the after-church lunch and I felt spaced-out and not really like talking to anyone and wasn't hungry anyway. It was nice to get out though.

So that has been what the last week or so has been like.

Snow!

And when we came out from Church on Sunday morning this was the view through the car windscreen:

Brrr. Didn't last long though. Then it turned to rain.

(I'm British ok. We Brits talk about the weather).

We all enjoy Italian food

We went to see J at the weekend. His uni is further north than we live and I've learnt that I need to wrap up warm when we visit. Just as well because the weather was awful. Rain all the way then when we got ther the delights of sleet then it turned to snow. However despite that we had a lovely time with him and all went out to an Italian for lunch. Seriously nice risotto.

And this was J's dessert:

  
The photo doesn't really convey the sheer hugeness of it. This was a nutella filled calzone. P meanwhile had tiramisu and I had ... a decaff latte while feeling very virtuous. Well I need to be virtuous because the weight loss plan sort of went a bit wrong last year. I think deciding to make my own Easter eggs was a mistake - required far too much tasting and set me off on a downwards slope. Sooo... New Year new start.

Hello Again

Ok six months has passed since I blogged. Part of the reason for this has been that for quite a lot of that time my laptop has been faulty. It took quite a while to convince P that it was functionally challenged because for a time whenever he switched it on it worked. I decided that the problem was that it just didn't like me. In fact the hard drive had 'an intermittent fault'. It has now been replaced so here I am again.

I can't really recount the whole of the last six months in a post. I'll just see what I feel like writing when I post.

Anyway J is in his second year at uni. He was ill at the end of lst term and has been ill since he went back this term which is concerning me quite a bit.

Things with P and me are ticking along much the same really. Church is going well. German lessons are going well and I have just about mastered subordinate clauses.

We had a good Christmas. Mavis was with us for Christmas Day and Boxing Day. She has been slowly deteriorating a bit over the last year - gradually getting a bit more confused and a bit more tired - with occasional admissions to hospital.

We spent New Year with my brother and family in Wales and had a great time. We went to a New Year's Eve party which was really nice but we were sooo tired the next day. Can't take the pace any more.

Burnt lunch anyone?

Household tip:

If you set a timer on your mobile phone to remind you to turn the chicken you are frying make sure the volume isn't on mute.

Unless you like black chicken.

Time for tennis

It's Wimbledon time!

I've been watching lots and lots and lots of tennis.

Of course I support Andy but I also really like Nadal, Federer and Djokovic so I had rather mixed feelings at the start but now it's all sorted though in a sad sort of way.

Go Roger!

And can Johanna beat Venus? I really hope so.