Adam and Andrea are friends that I have known for years – since before Inigo was born and we used to go to a pub in Newtown for a knitting group.
They bought a house, and renovated. They planned to start a family, and planned a more extensive renovation. But first, a wedding.
Very soon afterwards, they found out they were expecting. Twins!
Yesterday, we had a visit from them, Owen and Olivia are now two and a half, clever, chatty and adorable.
A simple reminder of the wonderful work I am lucky enough to do.
– from my iPhone
I love it when a plan comes together
The Squid sleeps.
In two and a half hours I’ll wake him up and say, “The Force Awakens” until it sinks in and he wakes up.
– from my iPhone
The blog is back!
After a few days of thinking it might be gone for good, and then a few weeks of worrying how much could be recovered (which coincided with Mark having some hell weeks at work), we now have a working blog back.
The theme needs reinstalling (or updating), but the content is here. Thanks Mark!
How was your day?
So the cold from hell seems to be over. The fourth round of antibiotics seems to have done the trick, and I am now back to “normal” amounts of lung medication to keep me from brain death. After a week of regularly getting above 95% when I tested my oxygen perfusion, I decided it was finally time to go back to the sports medicine specialist to get the results of my MRI.
My iphone (4s) decided to refuse to turn on this morning, so after a comedy of errors I finally arrived 15 minutes late, and then had to wait a further half hour. Turns out, there are reasons for delayed appointments that aren’t to do with doctors being lazy.
So my MRI shows that I have another ruptured disk, the very bottom one in my spine. Because this disk bears all the weight of the spine, healing will take some time (it’s already been 10 months!), but it should come good with some physio and more rest.
But the MRI showed something else. A lipoma, a little collection of cells that in itself isn’t a problem, but the specialist wants me to see a neurologist to rule out “tethered spine syndrome”, which is a possible cause of my pain.
Hopefully my phone will restart, and the backup a week ago was recent enough that I haven’t lost much of importance (except the photos of our fab holiday in Russell with Richard and Miriam this weekend 😦 ).
School holidays
This is an expensive kid to take out for sushi.
The time has come
Bunny grief
– from my iPhone
More Carrot Memories
My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today
Steph let me know that Carrot Vizzini Tiberius Rex Nettle-Da Silva didnt wake from his sleep this morning.
We adopted him knowing that he was older and we were lucky to have had so many years with him. We were also lucky that his final year was spent very much dictating his own terms, as lord high ruler of the lounge room at Stephs place since we moved to New Zealand.
Goodbye to the worlds most handsome bunny. We will always love you.
Bye bye Sydney
We took the long way to the airport so we could say goodbye properly.
– from my iPhone
Disco Knitter 