Family and stuff
Dressing Off
Big day today. K’s dressing had to come off. Then it was into the bath to try and soak off the butterfly stitches.
I ended up removing four butterfly stitches from the main puncture wound and, so far, it looks like he’s healing well. Still some claw marks and bruising and he’ll need to be careful of his back for a while longer in case he re-opens the puncture (which is very deep) but, all in all, a lot better than I expected.
His behaviour is calming down a bit too. He’s calmer and less likely to either burst into tears or fly off the handle at the slightest thing.
I’ve not been so lucky today. After two fairly good days, I woke up in a lot of pain this morning and felt pretty weepy all day. Ah well – better out than in.
Dog Update
It would seem that the dog’s owner decided to have his (rather aggressive) dog destroyed in the last day or so. The second dog is to to be taken to obedience classes. Although this is apparently a much gentler animal, the owner (quite rightly, in my opinion) isn’t prepared to take any chances. Mind you, this whole awful thing could have been avoided had he trained both dogs from an early age.
As it stands, there is no point in taking the case forward to the courts as the outcome of any police action would have been to deal with the dog. There is a possibility that the owner could have been fined too but I think that should wait until we decide whether we want to take civil action.
At least, K can now play out in his own street without fear.
Bad Day
I’ve been ill all day. I can only assume it’s all of the trauma from Sunday finally coming out.
Typical of me. Great in a crisis but when it’s finally over, I go to pieces completely. I only wish I could manage this kind of control at other times. It could come in rather handy.
Dog Attack
At 1:30pm on on Sunday, K (aged 7) asked if he could go out and play in the street. As it was sunny and quiet, we said OK. So he ran off up the road to call for his friends. On the way up the street, he passed a woman sitting on the front step of her house whilst behind her, in the open doorway, were 2 German Shepherd dogs. As K ran past, one of the dogs got past her, jumped the gate and attacked him. K tried to run away and either fell or was knocked over by the dog who held him down and bit his back.
Rolled Beeswax Candle Instructions
Luminar Candles – which used to have lots of info sheets on how to roll different types of beeswax candles – seems to have finally bitten the dust. The site has been AWOL for a while now and a quick check again today shows that the domain is now parked.
When I first started making rolled beeswax candles, I relied on the Luminar instructions quite heavily, so it seems only fair that I try and “put something back” now that those same pages are no longer available. I’ll to try and put up some pages of my own over the next few months.
Is There A Bug Going Round?
K’s been ill today.
He went to the optician’s yesterday and later complained that the light that had been shone into his eyes had given him a bad headache. So bad that we had to pick him up from school before lunch time.
Within a few hours, he had a high temperature.
An hour later, he threw up!
Bonfire Night
However, we only had a few sparklers and some toffee (actually chocolate coated) apples.
Our yard-garden is so small that anything resembling a small bonfire would threaten the house. And the last time we tried to do the whole ‘firework thing’, there was so much smoke hanging over the yard that we could barely see the fireworks!
Fortunately K isn’t that bothered by fireworks whilst N is currently doing the whole “I’m way to cool to get excited about anything” teenage bit. So it wasn’t as if anyone felt they’d missed out on anything major.
Besides, there’s always everyone else’s fireworks to watch….
At Last!
K’s left adult front tooth is finally coming through.
Bearing in mind that this was the baby tooth he managed to knock out when he was only four, having a child with two front teeth after almost three years will be quite a novelty. With luck, it will be through properly in about 4 weeks or so. Which means he has between now and mid-December to sing “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth”.
Scrap Wrap
Just by way of knitting something quick and easy after the ‘cardigan fiasco’, I decided to knit a Scrap Wrap.
Actually, it’s more of a scrap scarf than anything that I’d call ‘a wrap’. Had it completed in about 4 days with another few hours to fringe it. Still not decided whether it looks great or just tatty but I’m leaning towards the former. Mind you, I think I was a bit mean with the fringing, so I’ll probably add some more fringes first and then decide.
Now, where did I put that spare DVD case?
A Slice Of What?
I mentioned in a previous post that our experiences when eating at the ‘Slice’ restaurant at the Premier Travel Inn, Euston, were less than positive and promised to provide details.
Well, here they are…
