Cats and Kitten

Here's how the kitten is settling in. The three of them all get along (pretty much, the girls dont play together) and its great fun to see a small kitten playing our industrial sized Smokey cat!

Guitar Fest

We went to guitar fest on 11th July at the National Indoor Arena. I was expecting great things with loads of stalls selling guitar stuff and shows all day long.

The shows were great. Well some of them were. Others were just... wierd!

To be honest, for the long drive and cost of petrol I didn't think the day was worth it, but Luke enjoyed the experience and it was nice to have some father/son time.

The finale show was flipping awesome and made the whole day worth it.

I liked this guitar the best, but there weren't many to choose from as there was only about 20 stalls selling stuff.

Swine Flu

On Wednesday 15th July I was diagnosed with the Swine Flu. Great.

I say great because I'd rather have it now than when I'm going on holiday to Egypt!

Its not been great having it though. It seems symptoms vary from person to person. Me, I'm getting hot and cold temperature fluctuations all day long, with dizziness and feeling "spaced out" all the time. I can't concentrate on anything and just feel completely without energy.

My brother - who also has it - has what you would call regular flu like symptoms with the running nose, sore throat etc. I don't have any of those symptoms. There are people I work with who have had it the week before me and they too experienced differing symptoms including vomiting and diarrhoea.

Why is dia-rear such a hard word to spell?

I had dia-rear for the first 2-3 days but this is predominantly a side effect of the Tamiflu treatment.

Today I am feeling the same - hot/cold vacant brain spaced out feelings and lethargic. I'll be glad when this is over.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh.

The sound of Angels in heaven "aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh" as at this weeks weigh in Helen is now back to the weight she was when we first got together.

Not bad lookin is she?

Horrible!!

This chocolate torte with a gingernut crunchy base was horrible. Blah. Nobody wanted to touch it when Helen got home. Uh uh. no way. Not me. Not anyone. No sir.

Damn it was nice!