Vertigo might be a famous Hitchcock film, but it is also a particularly awful condition which has made me so sick this weekend I had to have an injection in the thigh so that I could walk a few metres without feeling like throwing up.
I’ve had occasional bouts of vertigo since my ears were radiated [...]
Archive for December, 2009
20 Dec
Spinning around
13 Dec
My problem? Your problem.
This has been such an exhausting weekend I don’t think I’ll be able to do it justice in this post, because I’m about to go to bed. We have had a children’s birthday party, two open homes, two BBQ’s, a Christmas party and I’ve had a hair cut. Which was definitely the most relaxing part [...]
12 Dec
A tent on the deck and a mouse in the swimming pool
This week we found our tent, which had been missing since we moved to Auckland, hiding inside Andrew’s dive bag. We put it up and of course the girls immediately wanted to spend the night in the tent. We managed to put them off camping on a school night, so last night was the big [...]
10 Dec
The swimming pool is open for business!
Yesterday Andrew made an important announcement – he’d taken some swimming pool water to be analysed, dumped in a bit more water hardener, and in 24 hours the pool would open for summer 09/10! Madeleine almost hyperventilated, and ran bubbling with excitement around the house. So today the girls spent almost the whole afternoon, after [...]
6 Dec
Bare leg weather
At last summer has properly arrived in Auckland, it is officially summer because I’ve been in a skirt with no stockings both days of this weekend. And the sunscreen is back on in full force. Give it another week and we may even be back in our swimming pool.
Might not be all good, I’m watching [...]
