Explaining the news to your child

This is something that I knew I would have to deal with sooner or later.

With the terible news this week of the attach in Woolwich. My daughter had seen the news but I had put my hand over her eyes while they were showing some of the graffic pictures. Some of you may say I should have turned over the channel but I do think she should know what is going on in the world. We watch the news every day at 6pm. Normaly she will sit and watch for the animal stories, sometimes she will be running round. Most of the news stories at this time are not normaly graffic and if they are there is normaly a warning. I can not sheld her from the world nor would I want to.

She has since asked why I had put my hand over her eyes. So I explained that the pictures where not very nice and I did not wish her to see them, as she might get scared. She was fine with that explination. But I think that sooner or later she will want to see and know what has happened and I will need to explain.

Now I think my daughter is quite mature for her age but when is the right time to let them know all the facts. I will normaly just let her diggest what she has seen and then let her ask me questions, which I try to answer to the best of my ability.

She is a very bright little girl and will ask questions about what she has seen.

My Hot Water Bottle

I have forgotten how much I need a hot water bottle. For meny years I've had a heat pack. But it has got lost in the house move so when I came down with this chest wall infection, which by the way is oh so painfull. I was at a friends house and she did me a hot water bottle and it helped with the pain.

Think it is going to come in handy in the winter time too :)

Even my cats are loving it. Every time I refill it they have to come and sit as close to it as possible. Not that that is helping my chest as Baskerville lays his whole body up against the hot water bottle and as it is against my chest I then have the extra weight of a cat on my chest too. So he gets pushed off and gives me that dirty look that cats do.

Chest wall viral infection

I woke up today and I couldn't breathe in without being in severe pain. My husband said that I was making noises while sleeping.

I ended up calling the doctors to get an appointment to see someone about the pain. I am very lucky that I can leave my daughter with any of the mums at school, if I need to leave her earlier than normal. Then one of the other mums gave me a lift in her car to the doctors.

After lots of tests including an ECG the doctor said that I had a viral infection on my chest well. She did give me a name but I can't for the life of me remember. There is nothing to do but take painkillers. The doctor did say that it could last 6-12 weeks.

Fell asleep and woke up in so much pain but think my body needed the sleep. Only thing about being ill with this is that going up and down stairs hurts and I can't do any house work. I have been told to rest up.

I want another kitten

A friend's cats have had very cute little tabby kittens and I sooooo want one. There are 9 of them and my friend put up some cute pics and video of them.

We already have two cats as I have blogged about before. But I want one more and I would like a ginger one but a tabby is also ok by me. I nearly chose a little tabby when we got Baskerville. But the tabby was in a big litter that my hubby didn't want to spilt up and little Baskerville was all on his own in a pen and we couldn't leave him alone.

I cleaned out the shed!

So I have spent the day cleaning. I started with the normal hoovering, washing up, cleaning down the kitchen work tops, putting a clothes wash in the machine.

Then I remembered that I am getting a bbq from my mum, now that my little brother has bought a swanky new gas one. So my shed needed cleaning out. As I don't want it going rusty if I left it out in the garden.

The shed is one of the many dumping grounds that I have, this one is for all the garden stuff plus the painting equipment. There is also all the rubbish that the old owners had kindly left us.

So I started by taking out everything and found that a family of mice had taken up residence but the cats, got to love them, soon scared them off. Baskerville almost had one but the silly thing let it go.

Once all the rubbish was out I had to block up all the holes so the mice don't come back. Then I had to bin a whole load of things that the mice had used as a home. I also found so meny snail shells so a good sweep out sorted all that.

Then to put everything that we are keeping back in. Now this took a while having to decided where everything was to go.

But now I have a useable shed. The only thing is that in the next year or so I am going to have to buy a new shed as it is rotting which is how the mice got in. This is becuse the person who put the shed up did it on bear earth!

Daughter off on her first school trip

I think I am more nervous than her about it. I know she will be well looked after and it is only to a farm.

She has been going on about all the baby animals she is going to see.

Well we got to school very early this morning. With her packed lunch in a backpack off she went into class. I did want to wave her off but the coach was no due to arrive until 9.20am. So me and my son left her for the walk home.

It seems a long day not having to pick her up at 12.

We went to pick her up at 3 and the first thing she said was 'Mummy I didn't like the farm it was smelly' 'I did like the kids. Kids are baby goats mummy'

And that is all I can get out of her!