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An eventful Stone Clear this morning where I possibly discover an ancient stone-clearing civilisation and Wolfie and I come very close to being killed by a horse.
The house is still clouded by mild illness. The kids were up throughout the night and I was knackered today. I managed to get to my personal training session, but have done very little exercise for the last two months and I think Paulette thought I might die in the end. Ernie had tummy ache and Phoebe was feeling weird (it turned out she’s got chicken pox), but they were well enough to go out for a play date this afternoon and I pushed onwards with the book.
I then took care of the kids for dinner and bedtime and we were pretty much ready to sleep once the kids were down. But it was another disturbed night. Ernie was feeling weird so I went to sleep in his bed with him. He then woke up and ran to the bathroom to be sick. He got about half of it in the toilet and the rest was a trail clue for any detective trying to follow his movements. I cleared up the sick and Ernie came and slept in our bed, but Phoebe then woke up, feeling unwell and asked if I could sleep with her. Eventually I came back to my own bed, but Ernie was sleeping in my spot so I went to sleep alone in his bed. It was a pretty disturbed night, which I am guessing means I won’t be trying to do a Park Run tomorrow. We’re all so run down that I assume it will be a day in bed tomorrow.
I am looking forward to a time when none of us are ill - I can’t remember the last time that happened. Though I’ve been under the weather for at least a month.
But annoyingly not so ill that I haven’t had to push on through and carry on with all the stuff I have to do. How I miss Covid and cancer. They let you have a proper lie in.
My kids are coming up with brilliantly impossible questions on a daily basis. Greg had a good go at answering the ghost bum-hole question yesterday. Today Phoebe asked if Adam and Eve had ever had baby teeth. Presumably not. They famously don’t have belly buttons and were created as adults, so I hope they didn’t have really tiny teeth first. So the answer is presumably no, but it’s an interesting angle to come in from. Then again they didn’t ever exist, so that makes the query even more abstract.
RHLSTP book club this week is a chat I recorded with Al Murray about his book “The Last 100 Years (give or take) And All That” during lockdown in 2020. Al is always fascinating when you get him on to history.
Listen here
