A Winter’s Tale: Storms and Flu

 Of all the weeks to return to blogging, and I choose the one where we all come down with Flu. Little miss fell ill on Sunday, feeling especially hot and quite tired. To be fair, now she’s a little bit older, she does seem to have slowed down with catching so many things. Bugs, coughs, colds, sickness was a weekly occurrence during her first school year. This is the first big thing she’s had since starting back in September, but wow, it was a biggy.

Anyway, Sunday evening, she went off to bed and I finished the book I was reading. ‘How they Broke Britain’. A great read if you want to be really angry at the media, the Government and especially Rupert Murdoch. It’s a really well researched and presented book actually, that dissects each character in the Brexit farce that has resulted in the country being well and truly, broken! Spoiler alert: It features BoJo, Cameron and Liz Truss too (like you couldn’t have guessed).

As expected the next two days little miss was at home, poorly. I wasn’t expecting that by Wednesday I would have it, and not be able to lift my head up off a bed/sofa for the whole day. I’m not sure I’ve had a proper flu before. This was it, and it wasn’t taking any prisoners! Even as I type, I’m still coughing, and still have a much smaller appetite than usual. 

As the weekend arrived though, I started to perk up and look forward to the prospect of a big extended family meal that I’d planned some time ago, at the Black Swan in Helmsley. I hadn’t accounted of course for the damage that Storm Darragh was going to inflict on North Yorkshire. I was pretty much determined that I’d be going, until I spoke with someone who lives a little closer to Helmsley who told me of the flooding, the massive trees blocking the roads, the abandoned cars. It sounded like my journey to the meal would end up being like a scene from an apocalypse movie. Still feeling delicate from the flu, I couldn’t face the prospect of being stranded on the roads too. So, illness and bad weather conspired to keep me indoors all week. 

Let’s hope next week is better!