Wish I could think of a witty title

The adrenaline rush that I seemed to run on for two weeks after DH died seemed to disappear. Then I became sick. The one thing that seems to make a difference between me being sick for ages and recovering well is sleep. Ah, blissful sleep! But also elusive. While I was recovering, that was [...]

Flat out like a lizard drinking

Work is a madhouse thanks to scholarship rounds, results processing, endless meetings that are surely generated in the seventh circle of hell, and the ongoing strain of having to learn how to do new tasks while doing what was already a full-time job.
DD is still unwell. A sort of underlying not-up-to-doing-anything, maybe better expressed as [...]

Struggle

Nothing bright and breezy to post today. I am struggling with back pain yet again. Yes, I get physiotherapy and I do all my exercises and I am trying to lose weight. In the meantime, I have to suck it up and deal with it. I also have severe neck and shoulder pain today.
Added to [...]

Demographics and the birth rate

Betsy Shaw at BabyCenter blogged about changes in fertility rates in North America and Europe.
In Australia we have the baby bonus, originally a sum of $3000 given to parents when a child was born back when the scheme started on 1 July 2004. On 1 July 2006 the baby bonus was increased again. [...]

Bark! Bark!

No, we don’t have a dog. Can you imagine the carry-on the cats would create if we brought a dog into their close-knit family?
Rather, I have a toddler who coughs and coughs. The doctor hasn’t been much help with this apart from when her cough turned into a croup cough, for which she was given [...]