Grounds for Divorce!

I'm finally starting to feel better after the swine flu jab, it made me feel really rough, but I expect it is a lot better to have the jab than to risk getting swine flu. I really need to get organised now, I still have so much to do before Christmas and it seems as if the days are just rushing past. I have Sam's birthday to think about too, poor Sam, it is no fun having your birthday and Christmas in the same week. I asked him for ideas about what presents he would like and he presented me with a neatly typed page of A4 paper with his wish list neatly divided into categories - if only he put that much effort into his homework! So now I know what he wants, but I will need a second mortgage to afford it all! Robbie's wish list is truly scary among other things he wants some Dr Marten boots with union jack toe caps - no way! I put up with him wearing bright colours and lurid patterns but the union jack toe caps are a step to far, it would be grounds for divorce! He will have to settle for something a little more sober, after all he is not far off 40, it's time he grew up!

Ugly Boys

My arm feels as if someone has filled it with concrete, it is as heavy as lead and it really aches. I had my flu jab on Tuesday and I always get a bad local reaction to it so I know this is nothing to worry about, but I wish it would get better. By yesterday evening Robbie was feeling a little better, but he still has a bad headache. Laura was poorly yesterday with similar symptoms to Robbie, but Sam who had the bug a day before Robbie was better and able to return to school. So that just leaves me, I am hoping they will have kept their germs to themselves because I really don't want to get it.



I knew that Robbie was getting back to normal when at well after 1am when we were both in bed he started to talk about the Ugly Boys who had apparently just arrived in UK. I thought he was talking about one of the bands that he likes because they all seem to have wierd names, but as he warmed to his subject it became clear that he was talking about trains! Two engines (from USA I think) that are as ugly as sin have just arrived in UK. When he showed me a picture of them I could see what he meant, they are horrible, but at 1am I have better things to do than worry about the aesthetics of the railways!

This is Not Funny

Last week I went to have my flu jab and while I was there they offered me another injection, I think it was to protect against pneumonia, I can't remember, but I took both injections anyway. If I get the flu or even just a bad cold I often end up with bronchitis and it always makes my asthma worse, so I try hard to stay well. The nurse put one injection in each arm right at the top close to my shoulder. I always react to the flu jab and within hours both arms were painful, by the following day I felt as if my shoulders were sticking out like an American football player. If anyone touched my arm it was so uncomfortable and it made me want to shout out, I couldn't even lay comfortably in bed. Steadily the discomfort diminished and I was left with a bruise to be proud of, but at least I could forget about it for another year. Then to add insult to injury my breathing started to play up, I started sneezing and now I have a really bad flu type bug, everything aches and I feel dreadful. I know it is just coincidence and nothing to do with the flu jab, but it feels a bit like a sick joke at the moment!