lost for words...

i am trying hard to get back into the normal swing of things and that would,n ormally, include the occasional blog entry. but i seem to have lost my blogging voice somewhere in the process of losing my actual voice (yes literally). so i think it may take me a bit of time to get back into the swing of things. as an opening move i'd like to note here that one of the cutest things the kids say at the moment are to refer to a big brown bear as having "two big gobbly eyes" instead of two big goggly eyes.

the grey stuff between elephant's toenails....

today i went to work for a whole two hours. i now feel like i have been run over by a large pack of marauding animals. zebras perhaps. or buffallo. whatever; they were things that are big and heavy and don't make even the slightest attempt to step lightly. so it is back to bed (cj you're on dinner!). but first ihave to hide my computer so that sophie doesn't run away with it. now that she has her mouse licence and can launch a browser, find a bookmarked page and navigate around thomas the tank engine all by herself i have a sneaking suspicion she is planning to take ownership of this machine for herself as soon as she can create a diversion....

doctors orders

for those folk who read this, you will have noticed i've been off line. this is a combination of school holiday business but mostly the result of a very bad virus which has basically sapped me of my will to type. and my will to speak. my doctor told me to stay in bed adn not talk (what kind of parallel universe does he live in i wonder) and i've tried but it hasn't been hard. so as a result i am still whacked, but starting to feel plagued by guilt about not working enough...when doctors hand out orders like that they should also issue little pink cards that can be passed out to various folk saying "it's not my fault: i'm sick"....