blogging in the garden (because I can!)
Yesterday did not go according to plan. 2 mnutes after blogging I got a phonecall saying Aprilia had fallen off the trampoline! She hadn’t, she’d landed awkwardly on it and turned her ankle over but it was still mighty painful! Some time (and a full dose of everything from calpol to hugs via frozen peas and teddy bears) later Duke arrived home and decided that if someone had presented themself to him with an ankle that was still too painful to take any weight and very swollen after this time he would pack them off to A&E so that’s what we should do. I was reasonably sure that what it needed was a good night’s sleep and see how we go in 24 hours but to be fair, he was right, had it been someone else we would have sent them off!
4 hours later, having sat in a stuffy waiting room without a drink (because neither of us had any change) a very lovely nurse practitioner prodded it, poked it and encased it in tubigrip declaring it to be a rather nasty sprain that will take at least as long as a fracture to mend properly, longer if she isn’t a very sensible girl bout doing her excercises to keep it moving. Then we were robbed of £4 to get off the carpark and finally got home just past 11pm. I could have nipped down to Asda and grabbed tubigeip off the pharmacy isle faster and cheaper than that……
All that, of course, meant that at gone 11pm, my PC was still upstairs rather than downstairs. And the house was still chaos. But we sorted the PC and I decided that I didn’t got a stuff about the bit on the form that I’d signed to say that I would be sitting my exam in a clean and tidy room!
And so this morning I let her lay in bed for as long as I could get away with before giving her the option of staying home with a pile of DVDs adn popcorn in her bedroom or going off for the day on the planned playdate. There was much dithering but eventually play won the vote and off she went with planty of sashets of calpol and a few ice packs (actually, I think strapping her into really sturdy boots helped as they supported her much better.) Was just back in time to open the door to my invigilator!
Exam was fine, well, as fine as I could have hoped for. Certainly I’d remembered enough to woffle on the required number of sjuects although I’m not sure I used the right format for this course as it’s different from last year’s preferd format for text and image analysis (ho hum!) Time will tell.
And now, the sun is shining and I am sat outside enjoying it because I have a laptop with a battery that lasts a respectable amount of time and a facility for wireless network! Aprilia isn’t home yet so I assume she’s still happily playing. I am planning on staring indecisively at the bookshelves later trying to decide waht to read first. All is well with the world!
Ow - poor Aprilia
But can’t be too bad today if she’s off playing - bet it’s much worse when she gets back home again though 
Glad the exam is done, at least
How long to wait for the result?
Comment by Alison — October 13, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
Yay! Glad it’s done. Should’ve taken the grab a cup of tea advice in the previous post mind you . . .
PS Nice new tent you got yourself there
Comment by michelle — October 13, 2008 @ 5:32 pm
retrospective good wishes on the exam, and ooh, poor Aprilia. Hope it is better today, and tonight, after the playing.
Comment by Jax — October 13, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
well, yes, obviously play is a powerful analgisic you know! but she did wilt again at bedtime and seem to require extra mummy fuss although I do suspect that bumping it against the beadstead while leaping into bed may have had something to do with it you know!!!!!!
Alison not sure when I get the result, I think last year it was December when I got the results
Michelle, I did warn you! When I say grab a cuppa I MEAN IT! and yes, lovely looking tent, looking forward to test driving it althoug I suspect not til next year now. There is lusting after a HUGE Outwell going on in this house for once the Hobbit Hole dies, we have a reputation to keep up after all
Comment by Administrator — October 13, 2008 @ 7:38 pm