Nothing is impossible for an engineer - I aint dead...

10:38 pm - I aint dead...

although things have been mildly grim. Two weekends ago we all went off to Centerparcs (Sherwood Forest) with custancia and family. This was lots of fun. evie_petrol has thoroughly got over her fear of water and was thrashing around with Ellie lots. Ellie is a much better swimmer, but if Evie wore a buoyancy aid she could keep up with Ellie and the two of them thrashed around together in the pool nicely. Daddy went on some water slides for the first time in, er, decades and all was good. On Saturday night trash_petrol and custancia went out for a drink and Paul [WINOLJ] and I played several games of Memoir '44. I got to say such things as "achtung panzer!", "eat lead, Fritz", "take that, Ivan", etc, and eat lots of nachos.

Unfortunately, I awoke on Sunday morning feeling very ill. I wondered if I had eaten too many nachos. We took the sprogs out to rampage on the adventure playground, but I eventually had to admit defeat and take to my bed. Shortly afterwards I was very sick. Now, historically, I've often been ill at Centerparcs or after I've been swimming. We wondered if I have some curious sensitivity to chlorine or something? So we kinda decided this was why I was ill and didn't think much more of it. I did the best I could for the next couple of days, but I was quite out of it.

Then on Monday night evie_petrol was sick too. When she returned to school we discovered there was a sickness bug doing the rounds and 10 children were off in one class at her school. All became clear...

amelia_petrol got it Wednesday night, and trash_petrol finally succumbed on Friday. Fortunately, by the time trash_petrol was laid out by it I had recovered, so there was always one responsible adult (stop sniggering) who could child-wrangle.

Finally, taking evie_petrol to ballet on Saturday morning custancia appeared without Paul and explained that he was at home being very sick. Oh dear.

We all seem to have recovered now, although the unexpected weight loss has been nice. I've had to tighten my belt a notch!

I've finished work today for a couple of weeks. I'm taking the Easter school holidays off then it's back to work fulltime. The next three days will be relaxing - just amelia_petrol at home. Next week Bonkers Girl will be at home and things will be, er, less peaceful...