We must be feeling better. Starting to joke about the situation and feel more or less as we should now.
Why did I get so worried about telling my parents??
They reacted perfectly calmly, after registering the initial shock, and the day yesterday was just as enjoyable as any other is with them these days. We took the kids over to Brixworth Country Park again and had a great time. It's almost 30 years!!! since I first went there with Piper as a novice birdwatcher - my first notes from the reservoir are dated 11 March 1975. I saw my first ever Wheatear that day.
It brought back a lot of memories on Sunday as the sun started to go down on the gull roost by the dam...
Saw a butterfly in the garden today - only briefly, but a Red Admiral. Seasonally outrageous I think, but I need to check.
Trx is feeling suitably rubbish most of the tiem now and can't find any food that doesn't taste disgusting. Except sardines, beetroot, Quavers and Horlicks. And jsut about anything fizzy. I rememebr when she was carrying Flo dashing off at some ridiculouos hour when her craving for Cherryade kicked in...
Her brother has just announced today that he and K are getting married in March!!! So totally out of the blue and fantastic news. She is preganant too, and the baby is due in September.
He's off to Cyprus with the reds in April and then the display season kicks in, so they want to get the Big Event over before he goes away. That leaves like NO TIME at all for planning and stuff. Trx is in bed now and I've been on the phone to Biscuit for an hour so we'll have to discuss this over the cornflakes.
Hurrah for them.
It's going to be quite a year