You poor thing. Insect bites are the worst. Do you have lots of bugs where you are? I will bring calamine lotion and anti itch things. I’ve heard peppermint and clove and lavender and tea tree oil help with itching.

You are clever. Roll with this wonderful feeling of it! I reckon the more you hear it the easier it’ll be to accept it. And all other good things in life that your natural reaction to is to reject.

Your shoulder has been playing up for a long while now. Since the play date with the cool lawnmower? I don’t know whether to say it sucks getting old or go at a doctor. I always go with it sucks getting old. It’s cheaper and saves me the doctor’s politically correct and expensive version of that.

This is going to sound dum but I’m loving having a day off. I need a break. I might try to take a week off soon if the work frontier calms down a bit. Thank you for putting it into perspective with chicken soup hair 😂 😂 😂

Dearest Anita

That’s an excellent poem. I love it.

I’m not dreadfully sick, just miserably sick. I have always gone to work regardless of health so I’m trying not to fall into a puddle of guilt. There are mixed feelings in my employment places: one fearing sickness, the other thinking you’re weak to take time off when sick. On top of my own guilt, this isn’t helpful.

I spent 15 years in a job where my offspring in hospital on death’s door wasn’t a good enough reason to be allowed time off. It doesn’t help to have had that donation in one’s work life.

I’m going to try to relax! To believe that sick leave is there for a reason, and I wouldn’t make a sick person go to work, so I should care for me with the same consideration. Hmmm.

You have a heart of gold. I love chicken soup! I too would bring you something, although it might be cheesy pizza, as I don’t cook as much as I used to. Truth be, since there are no progenies (yes, great English 😂) I don’t feel like I have a reason to. I work a lot too so my time is precious and often I choose fun over cooking. I cooked last night though, while I had enough energy to. I hope it helps that I ate well. I found honey mustard chicken drum sticks in the freezer from a past effort, so not too much cooking, only the veggies.

I’ve decided to put distance between me and the oven now. I’m taking a page out of your book! I can’t budge the bit on the bottom and I don’t have a chisel 😂

I wonder if that’s part of why I was genuinely worried he might make it a thing. I used to do this too, but I fairly much only have conversations with co workers these days, and there’s nothing I could ever say that would come close to the shizz they talk about 😂 I have to tell them enough 😂

I knew some deeply Christian people that I accidentally said f*ck in front of. The horror I caused. It made me feel so bad. I prefer to go with the idea that people who swear are more honest 😂 😂

I just sprayed my stupid oven for the third time it’s so dirty. The progeny stayed for a few months way back and I only looked at it recently. Not that my oven is every spotless but this is a whole other thing. I need a chisel!

That’s so amazing you sang. I’m too chicken to buy I love music.

Thank you. Now I’ll give you something to laugh at – warning mentions merrry jju @nna

I got the oven fixed today and the dude was very chatty. I mentioned, back in the teenage days of one of my offspring that they nicked my coffee grinder and they denied it, but I knew as they used it to grind their stuff up. 20 minutes later the electrician told me he was a police man for 20 years.

Honestly don’t think I could put my foot in it any deeper than that. Utterly gobsmacked. Slightly worried 😂 but also had a good laugh.

True that! I thought you thought I was nutty being so shy of sharing. Also I thought I was the over sharing person who didn’t show interest in you. I thought I should turn that around because I am interested!