House driving me inexorably and none too slowly round the frigging bend. Plumber B has fecked up bigtime and quoted us a price for fitting wood burners that is almost exactly 50% of the 'real' price so must now find a way to pull 2000 euro out of my butt as have passed the point of no return really for reinstating a plain fireplace. Arsehole! ( Read more... )

Well the subject line says it all really. After I posted my encouraging little comment on Monday I took DD to the poark in the afternoon sunshine to find her listless and shivery. By the time we got home, husband in tow, he was weak and shivery too. Soaring temperatures all round - Wacko! DD has had two AWFUL nights in a row and thus so have we. ( Read more... )

There are great truths that cross the mind when one feels sicker than a dog. These are not really to be classed as such ( Read more... )

I am sick. Again! This pestilential bug that sweet DD brought home from creche has finally come home to roost. Mr Wol has it too, and DD is not better by a long chalk so I cannot even languish in good conscience. ( cut for much bitching )