"Regrets....I've had a few" as Old Blue Eye's used to crone. And for once I can identify with him. After posting yesterdays entry I quickly realised my error, that of causing panic and concern. Within an hour of hitting the "post" button Mum was on the mobile lambasting me with questions, while Mike and Liz followed with innumerable calls to the house later.
Obviously most of you are now aware of Caroles condition, which isn't quite as life threatening as my blog initially indicated, but to clarify she's OK. My defence is that I was half asleep as I typed the blog yesterday, hence the rather extreme descriptions of events! While I was at work, Luca was at Nursery, and Jane, Nick and Max were travelling North, Carole simply slept through the day. I came home around 4.30pm (as my eyes wouldn't stay open any longer) to find her in bed, albeit awake and not in any great pain. I left her briefly to walk the dogs - I think they walked me, as I stumbled along the road like a character from a George A Romero movie - before arriving back home minutes before the Armstrongs, who'd also collected Luca from nursery. Any thoughts of a quick kip evaporated as Luca and Max chased each other round the house. However, Carole took it in her stride and even coped well with the short ones bouncing on the bed! Luca even went one step further and climbed under the cover, and as he pulled it up to his neck told us this was now "Luca's bed" and daddy could now sleep "Down there", as he pointed the bottom of the bed.
Nice to know my role in the household has been relegated to the same status to that of a dog.
Jane fed Luca while I spent time (nay snoozed a little) with Carole, before I got him changed into his jammies, bottle, story, teeth and bed. Max followed shortly after, though again initially going to sleep in his mum and dads bed - he's complained vociferously about Luca keeping him awake with his chatting! A valid complaint I must add!
Carole got up for a short while during late evening to spend a little time with her sister. They're leaving to travel back to Nottingham this morning which may be a fraught journey - Max wasn't in the best of moods as I left the house with Luca this morning due to lack of sleep. Although I think he's genuinely going to miss Luca and Sima too.
Hopefully I'll get online tonight to post the photo's from the weekend, and to describe the house insurance claim we were almost forced to proceed with - I'll describe in more detail later, but suffice to say I was glad Nick was around....
**Useless fact of the day - The following are strange, but true, insurance claims:- In one case a female motorist filled her tank with the wrong substance after mistaking a bottle of shampoo for a container of petrol.
Happily for one owner, CCTV footage was able to corroborate his claim that a passing camel had kicked and damaged his car at a garden centre.
One driver lost control of his vehicle and ended in a ditch after driving through liquid that had leaked onto the road from a large pile of decomposing carrots dumped nearby.
Elsewhere, a car was damaged when a naked pedestrian jumped on the car bonnet, leapt onto the roof, jumped up and down and then ran away.
One driver's windscreen was melted when a Harrier jet flew overhead, crash landed nearby and burst into flames**
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