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chris is NOT WELL, even I, one of the most illhusbandaverse people in the world can see this. And to day – in my absence [rofl at the idea that he was scared i would roll my eyes lots!] – he accessed the nhs site which duly pronounced that as cough and high temp it must be swine flu, and a tamiflu number issued. i quite enjoyed picking up the tamiflu. i went to a huge gp centre [a nearly darzi] and there was a chemist there, so i assumed wrongly and went in. i was quickly escorted out and told i needed to sit on green chair on the end of a corridor on the left. oookayyyyyyy. so with leper bell ringing, i found green seat, near open door. so peered thru and asked if i could come in. there were 3 v v bored people – prob on facebook! – with laptops open and infront of them stacks of leafelts, and behind huge boxes of tamiflu with the doses in a label on the front. oh and lots of alcohol hand gel!! they are obviously set up for an inundation, as there are also mask boxes. poor things must be bored out of their brains! we were number 7 on their list – 7 today? 7 all week?? had no husband id, but the man in charge wasn’t bothered, as he said, why would i bother coming otherwise. so left, with those magical tablets in hand. there is apparently concern that people might stockpile for avian flu. i don’t think we need to worry, this country on today’s inspection seems to have a tamiflu mountain! anyway, husband refused to let me secrete them away in case of avain flu, and took them instead. honestly!! hopefully he will start to feel better, as also liberally dosed with nurofen and paracetamol.

we have discussed this, that she is 5 this term, and this is the age that she would start school. she said she didn’t want to, that she had been sad at the playgroup she went to 4 times as she didn’t want to be left alone. i shrugged and said we home educated, so that she didn’t need to worry about it. she said that she could go if she wanted to though couldn’t she? she might feel ready at 5. so i said yes. i know it is next term that she is officially home educated rather than this one, but it does feel like this one, and it is a bit odd that my baby is now, pretty much, of compulsary education age. weird.

so she did some – she had a go at reading some cvc words in this

with me [i was working from home, as i need to do a teaching module course thing for my colleagues, the person 'in charge' having resigned and the first module on tues!! and we can only use encrypted memory sticks at work, and he gave me his from his training course...] she went swimming with chris – again fantastic. they did some water pistolling.
then i spent 3 hours playing sylvanians – god give me strength! – in the late afternoon.

interesting bb things – she can grasp a tune v quickly and reproduce it in key. she can do adding up, within 10. she is v good at spotting things and looking – having noticed a hedghog eating a snail in the garden this eve that i was closer too! and she is much easier when an only child! i loved her complaint about the title ratatouille. it really should be rata-one-y apparently!

we are down to one child currently. SB had a playdate with someone met at sailing last week this morning. they live in the village, tho sailing was some distance away. it apparently went well. BB has continued to improve in her daily swimming lesson. other than that chris says they have done nothing particularly exciting. obviously SB has been dropped of with c parents for a sleepover. bb and i did some adding up, which she quite enjoys. then we watched jungle book. a somewhat shorter day blogged!!