Apologies for absence

Categories: everyday-disasters

Tags: Christmas, illness

Date: 09 December 2008 11:43:13

Yes, yes, I know it's five days since I last blogged. But I was on a retreat over the weekend, and then came home with gripy guts and spent all yesterday in bed. The retreat was fine, although I actually skived off two chunks of it, on Friday night to go to the Christmas fair at Genius Brat's school (which was all Camden Market traders - got some lovely jewellery) and on Saturday afternoon (which was in any case free time) to go to the annual Mennonite Christmas party - exactly what I did last year because the Advent retreat and the party always clash. Such are the benefits of going to a local retreat place, the other benefit being that I could walk there from home, dragging my new red wheeled suitcase bought especially for retreats and weekends away.

Now I've recovered from the headache and sick feeling, but today Genius Brat is off school because he has an awful cough and a sore throat. And I am here writing this instead of starting my Christmas cards. When I switched on the radio this morning it was just in the middle of an item about procrastination (maybe I should listen to it later on the net...;-)