Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, all. Well the house of illness is still in business. I think we need to paint a yellow cross on the door and carry a dish and clapper, screaming, "unclean, unclean!" every time someone steps through the gate.
husband is the latest victim. We DID go out this morning, using the excuse of taking BF2 to work, plus buying a few more things we need (like brackets to repair the kitchen drawers, falling apart after all these years of heavy use; and a new electric heater). Also stocked up on more food - with me, husband, difficult child 3 now having a bigger than adult appetite, BF2 and difficult child 1 when he's home, it's a struggle to keep people fed. I insist on cooking fresh food and not allowing them to pig out on rubbish, but the downside is the need for fresh supplies.
But husband went downhill fast after we got home - running a fever, put himself to bed, slept a while then got up while I slept a while. I'm still not great either.
easy child 2/difficult child 2 still has no appetite due to her bad cold; I don't think anything would impede difficult child 3's appetite.
I bought some oranges, cut some up and put them in a dish on the kitchen bench. Hopefully people will eat them and thereby get some Vitamin C. Then difficult child 3 & I lit a fire in our backyard pizza oven, to warm us up while we cleaned up the garden. I know I'm still feeling lousy, but I'm hoping to get some vital winter pruning done tomorrow on my peach trees. Probably not much point because we never get to eat the fruit - the parrots get the lot every year - but maybe we'll get a pretty show of blossom in a few months.
I managed to get husband sitting by the fire for a short while, as difficult child 3 toasted marshmallows. (Yes, we do that in Australia). It's a pity difficult child 3 doesn't like bananas, because a favourite winter campfire treat is banana with chocolate - you cut a long slit along the inner curve of the banana's peel, ease it apart and poke some pieces of chocolate into the banana flesh, wrap the banana in foil (skin still in place inside the foil) then let it heat through in the coals. When it's hot and the chocolate is melted through, you ease open the foil and the banana skin and eat the yummy stuff with a spoon. You can tip it onto a plate and add cream, if you want to be genteel.
I'm hoping to head for bed earlier tonight. Lots of garden work to do tomorrow, assuming husband hasn't given me the lurgy.
Marg
husband is the latest victim. We DID go out this morning, using the excuse of taking BF2 to work, plus buying a few more things we need (like brackets to repair the kitchen drawers, falling apart after all these years of heavy use; and a new electric heater). Also stocked up on more food - with me, husband, difficult child 3 now having a bigger than adult appetite, BF2 and difficult child 1 when he's home, it's a struggle to keep people fed. I insist on cooking fresh food and not allowing them to pig out on rubbish, but the downside is the need for fresh supplies.
But husband went downhill fast after we got home - running a fever, put himself to bed, slept a while then got up while I slept a while. I'm still not great either.
easy child 2/difficult child 2 still has no appetite due to her bad cold; I don't think anything would impede difficult child 3's appetite.
I bought some oranges, cut some up and put them in a dish on the kitchen bench. Hopefully people will eat them and thereby get some Vitamin C. Then difficult child 3 & I lit a fire in our backyard pizza oven, to warm us up while we cleaned up the garden. I know I'm still feeling lousy, but I'm hoping to get some vital winter pruning done tomorrow on my peach trees. Probably not much point because we never get to eat the fruit - the parrots get the lot every year - but maybe we'll get a pretty show of blossom in a few months.
I managed to get husband sitting by the fire for a short while, as difficult child 3 toasted marshmallows. (Yes, we do that in Australia). It's a pity difficult child 3 doesn't like bananas, because a favourite winter campfire treat is banana with chocolate - you cut a long slit along the inner curve of the banana's peel, ease it apart and poke some pieces of chocolate into the banana flesh, wrap the banana in foil (skin still in place inside the foil) then let it heat through in the coals. When it's hot and the chocolate is melted through, you ease open the foil and the banana skin and eat the yummy stuff with a spoon. You can tip it onto a plate and add cream, if you want to be genteel.
I'm hoping to head for bed earlier tonight. Lots of garden work to do tomorrow, assuming husband hasn't given me the lurgy.
Marg
