Entries from April 2009

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

My £2 Big Adventure

I had £2.
All but one of the tubes had been taken out. The morphine drip, The wound drip tube thingy. The tube out of the nose. The antibiotic tube drip.The saline drip was all that was left. It went everywhere with me. 
My £2 Adventure was something to look forward to from the day before. [...]

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

THAT Saturday!

I came close to killing him.
HE spent every single bit of Friday night, well Saturday morning really, muttering, fidgeting, turning the light on, turning the light off, going to the toilet, not going to the toilet, getting up, going back to bed….just about every single thing ………. I nearly killed HIM.
The only time [...]

Friday, April 24th, 2009

I could never be a spy

In the words of the great writer Babette Cole from her series of books “The Trouble with Mum/Dad/Grandad/Grandma”  The trouble with blogging is that blogging ideas arrive at unusual times. 
So it was this morning. “Tubes up your nose and down your throat are especially yacky” came into my mind just as I was about to [...]

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

My Wii Fit Board had never been so pleased to see me!

Five a side on Thursday night (11th December) was great. I played well. I can run which always means I can contribute but this time I played well as well. Luke said my goal was lucky and it was a bit, left footed and off the end of my toe, but I got there and [...]

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

It keeps you going.

Being off for so long reminds me of when a student arrives in your class. The first thought is I can’t wait to get all that stuff finally done in those six weeks of 80% curriculum time and then in the fifth week there is a sudden realisation that all of that stuff has not [...]

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