7 March 2009

After breakfast we hurried Emily off to the hospital yet again, this time for her Hib booster vaccination. As always, I could not watch as the doctor administered the jab, so was glad that Nick was there to hold her. She cried for about a minute then was all smiles again.

I left Nick to take Emily home and rushed off to my penultimate Japanese class. I was really pleased that one topic I had a mental block on last time was crystal clear to me now. That seems to happen a lot: going from feeling that I will never master something, to enlightenment suddenly dawning without any real effort. Perhaps my brain works on it 'offline' while I am sleeping.

It was a beautiful day: bright, and warm in the sunshine, so we went to Rikugien after lunch. The sudden improvement in the weather had drawn out the visitors and it was the busiest I've seen it, in about six or seven trips. Emily walked a lot, though she dropped to her knees frequently as it was a little uneven. Halfway round she started getting very irritable, and we eventually pinned it down to being hungry, so had to cut short the visit and hightail it to a nearby cafe for cake. With her sharp little teeth she managed to pierce a cream jigger and suck out the contents!





Nick had a four-way Skype conference call with some of his Durham MBA pals in the evening. Not quite as good as a chat down the boozer but the banter was flowing well and I knew he was feeling the lack of mates to go out with.