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Apr. 14th, 2012 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anteros_lmcHello, I'm back! Had a lovely wee break at home in the Hebrides. Spent most of the week catching up with my sister and family and visiting various places we haven't been to for ages, including this beach which is probably my favourite place in the whole wide world. I'll post some beachspam later in the week :)
Unfortunately we have come back with a suspiciously spotty daughter who appears to be coming down with chickenpox. Poor thing :(
So what exciting things have you guys been up to all week?
Unfortunately we have come back with a suspiciously spotty daughter who appears to be coming down with chickenpox. Poor thing :(
So what exciting things have you guys been up to all week?
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Date: 2012-04-14 10:19 pm (UTC)I have had a quiet week. I have been doing a lot of reading. This upcoming one will be more busy though. Tomorrow I have to go around Manhattan with my brother's daughter and wife.
Then on Wednesday, back to hosp for daughter's yearly brain scan thing. We will be there until Friday at least. She is very reluctant to go. It will be super boring! But we will be online at least.
It is crazy warm here, like mid-summer. T shirt weather. People are out in the street, playing music, and eating street food. The air smells of fried chicken, and sounds of little kids.
I am sorry to hear about the chicken pox. What a pain. Poor thing. At least she will get it over with young.
My husband managed somehow not to get it until he was 21. He got very spotty and miserably sick, and he had to delay his entry into the Navy. They did not want him at boot-camp like that!
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Date: 2012-04-14 10:53 pm (UTC)Sounds like you have a very busy week lined up. Hope your daughter's annual tests go okay and you both have plenty of reading material or other distractions to take your minds of the super boredom!
It is crazy warm here, like mid-summer.
It's a bit crazy here too, we had brilliant blue skies and snow on the journey down today. Definitely not t-shirt weather here!
My husband managed somehow not to get it until he was 21. He got very spotty and miserably sick
I can sympathise with your husband, I got it when I was 21 too! I was pretty miserable for a week, but it could have been a lot worse. Daughter has managed to avoid several rounds of chicken pox over the last few of years so I'm quite glad in a way that she's caught it now. I just hope she doesn't get too sick as I have to go away to Cambridge for a couple of days on Monday.
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Date: 2012-04-15 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-15 11:33 am (UTC)Glad the card turned up, that was quick! I only posted it on Friday!
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Date: 2012-04-15 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-04-15 08:01 am (UTC)That's such a beautiful picture! ;__; I really can't wait to visit Scotland! I won't get to see the Outer Hebrides, but I'm going to spend a day and night on the Isle of Skye. *excited*
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Date: 2012-04-15 12:00 pm (UTC)The recommended quarantine period here seems to be one week and we're already wondering how on earth we're going to juggle work and looking after poor toots! The spots are appearing at a rate of knots now but she's being very brave.
I won't get to see the Outer Hebrides, but I'm going to spend a day and night on the Isle of Skye.
Aye you need about a week to see the Outer Hebrides alone! Save them for another trip :) Skye doesn't have too many beaches but it has the most spectacular mountains and castles.
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Date: 2012-04-15 08:24 am (UTC)I hope your little daughter will be better soon. Better though that she has chickenpox early.
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Date: 2012-04-15 12:05 pm (UTC)Definitely better to get chickenpox sooner rather than later but it's not much fun at any age. What would Dr Maturin recommend for itches?!
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Date: 2012-04-15 12:15 pm (UTC)I hope you and partner have already had chickenpox?
Oatmeal baths, keeping fingernails short, cool compresses? I am not certain calamine lotions were invented then.
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Date: 2012-04-15 09:43 pm (UTC)We have. I just hope neither of us are unfortunate enough to get it again!
Oatmeal baths, keeping fingernails short, cool compresses?
Finger nails cut, cool compresses applied!
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Date: 2012-04-16 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-15 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-15 01:45 pm (UTC)And thank you for the beautiful picture. Have you taken this by yourself? What a beautiful place... I would really like to visiting the Hebrides some day!
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Date: 2012-04-15 09:34 pm (UTC)Have you taken this by yourself? What a beautiful place...
I did, and it is a very beautiful place indeed. I'll try and post some more pics later in the week.
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Date: 2012-04-19 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-19 10:11 pm (UTC)There's another even bigger beach called Ardroil just round the peninsula here. This is where the Viking Lewis Chessmen, pictured in my icon, where found.
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Date: 2012-04-15 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-15 09:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-15 07:02 pm (UTC)Sorry about toots = thouhg it is a bit of a necessary evil/
Sending love to her and hopefully a small pirate package of sorts.
Welcome back glad you had a break though =very muhch needed for sure
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Date: 2012-04-15 09:37 pm (UTC)Yay! :)
Sending love to her and hopefully a small pirate package of sorts
Aww you're so kind. She's been very brave today.
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Date: 2012-04-15 11:34 pm (UTC)I've mostly been at my seasonal temp job all week (it's tax-related). Managed to hook one of my friends there on Hornblower - baited her in with my two smutty fics first, and then lent her the box set. She's entranced. I also had to write a very dull research paper for one of my classes (where the citations took twice as long as the writing) and do a take-home final, which cut into my writing time.
I did, however, have a Date on Friday night. More I cannot relate outside a careful filter!
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Date: 2012-04-19 10:02 pm (UTC)Well done on converting another Hornblower fangirl! We really should start awarding honours for services to the fandom :D
A Friday Night Date eh?! Good on you! Sounds much more exciting than dull research papers. Hope you have more of the former and less of the latter!
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Date: 2012-04-19 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-19 10:13 pm (UTC)Awwww bless!
Now if I could only drag her onto LJ as well as tumblr...
I have every faith in your powers of persuasion! ;)
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Date: 2012-04-16 02:18 pm (UTC)You haven't missed much from me. :) I've been mostly mired in a hideous essay and an equally hideous cold. Recovering from both now.
Oh dear, hope your daughter's alright. I agree with the commends above on how it is best she has it while she is young, but that's small consolation for her, I'm sure.
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Date: 2012-04-16 10:08 pm (UTC)Dave
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Date: 2012-04-16 10:10 pm (UTC)Dave
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Date: 2012-04-19 10:08 pm (UTC)I wonder and worry a little about shingles... perhaps I should get the shot.
I'm not sure you can get shots for this kind of thing over here. Sounds like a good idea if you can get one. I had a poor unfortunate friend who had shingles at school when he was 16!
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Date: 2012-04-19 10:05 pm (UTC)Hope you're now fully recovered from the hideousness of colds and essays.
Daughter has pretty much recovered from the chicken pox but now seems to be suffering from a bad dose of cabin fever ;)