The Blog has developed a little problem, and I’m rebuilding it as I write!

Happy New Year to everyone!!!

Rik & Louise

xx

Well, that was fun………… NOT! Although I had backed a lot of stuff up, as you should of course, I hadn’t checked to see what environment the advertised update for the blog required. By the time it had done it, I realised that it had all gone haywire!

Here we are on the 2 Jan 2010 all back up to where I was when I wrote the note above………..

Apart from a mad rush to sort the blog out, we had a fairly quiet day, except that the sandfly bites still hadn’t gone down! I’d sorted out some cold water in a tray, with a cold wet flannel to help keep the heat down and the itching as little as possible, but it wasn’t enough. Louise was awake until about 5am trying to find something else that could help. She did! Cellotape…………..

We think it has to do with the cellotape cutting off air supply to the bite, and also stopping the bite from expanding and therefore causing the itch. But, it works a treat!

We thought it was better to keep Louise off her feet and trying to catch up on the sleep she’d been missing out on, so we had a quiet day in – me rebuilding the blog, and Louise sleeping. She woke up for tea and then we sat and watched films together until the New Year turned up. We had a couple of phone calls and Skype chats to wish people the best for the new year taking full advantage of the fact that we were in a totally different decade to the rest of the world for a short while! I stayed up with Louise until about 4am making sure that her feet were kept cool and that she could get some more sleep, and sprayed every inch of the house with fly spray so that no interlopers were set to munch some more on her! I then fought my way through the mozzie netting around the bed to settle down for a few hours myself too.