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Thank you for all the kind comments about Wolfie. She had her operation today and it went well and it looks like her liver isn't as badly affected as feared. So hopefully she has a good few months ahead of her, albeit with no spleen.
Here's a picture of the two cancer raddled stone clearers feeling sorry for each other!
After five weeks of me mainly being in bed and Catie having to do everything, I am going to try and pay her back by looking after the kids as much as possible, until I then disappear to Edinburgh for two weeks.
We all made salads for lunch. Ernie really got into iceberg lettuce (probably because he's obsessed with Titanic) at their Grandma's and loved using the salad spinner, so he made himself a mainly lettuce based lunch. Phoebe has invented fried salad which consists of sliced potatoes, carrot, cucumber and sweet corn which is all cooked in a pan. It's her invention and she thinks it's good.
I made a Zoe-friendly mango and chicken salad with almonds and pine nuts, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and avocado. We could at least pretend that we were going to be healthy after the holiday (my weight is sneaking back up now that I am eating stuff again - who would have thought it?).
I managed to force them out of the house for the afternoon though Phoebe was very reluctant to come to the park. Ernie played with a fairly rubbish polystyrene plane and Phoebe pretended she didn't want to have a go, but then had a few goes.
Their reward for five minutes of exercise was a milk shake and then we went shopping for pens for Phoebe's secondary school. I remember the annual trip to WH Smiths to buy school stuff and how weirdly exciting that is. We were in WH Smiths today, whatever they are now choosing to call it. As I paid I searched my phone for my WH Smiths loyalty card before realising the TG Jones probably didn't take it.
We did a loop of the town. I bought a summer jacket and we'd killed a couple of hours, which is what the summer holidays is all about. How can we get through all these minutes and seconds before the kids are back in school?
It is good to be back out in the world again and doing this ordinary stuff. As much as I try to avoid working, doing absolutely nothing is much worse.
