6 August 2009

After another bad night. I resolved to take the financial hit and go to the doctors. It was very cloudy so for some reason I was stupid enough to put on a pair of jeans. Of course, within ten minutes I was dripping with sweat as it was still high 20s and extremely muggy. You'd really think I would know better by now!

After a half hour dive into the jidokan to placate Emily, we went to the clinic. I got the requisite antibiotics, but what with the consultation fee it set us back more than a hundred quid. Sharp intake of breath. Well worth it though, as I began to feel an improvement only a few hours after the first tablet. While I was there I also asked the doc about a niggling ache in my calf. He asked me to lie on the couch so he could feel the muscle, and Emily immediately started wailing. She had shown definite signs of nervousness around him but that was unexpected.

Later, we met Bettina and Jo for another visit to Nandemo. Neither of them had been before, but it seems a good venue as we can all reach it in the same amount of time. The kids ran riot for an hour in a state of high excitement, while we caught up on a week's natter.

They are both going home soon so we will be without our regular playdate for a few weeks. We finished up at the Starbucks at the station, where we took over all the comfy chairs and the children tormented the salarymen/women who had dropped in there for a quiet drink and read, with their squealing.