Archive for March, 2011

Grommet-y tears of joy

When a Rat undergoes surgery, there are a few people who hold their breaths. His mum and dad, for starters………everyone else is peripheral. Sitting your child on your lap, placing a breathing mask over his face, have him fight you and cry every step along the way, and then watching his eyes glaze over and [...]

It’s raining tears

Interesting thing about children growing up is that they seem to develop favourites from an early age. It swings from one to another more frequently than we’d prefer, but it happens nonetheless. Little Rat seems to have recently developed fondness for his dad, and he shows this fondness almost every single time he gets an [...]

Two months compressed into 3 paragraphs

I could easily provide excuses for my distinct lack of blogging, but why bother – you, dear reader, either don’t care, or you’re me in another 10 years in which case you’ll remember why its been a busy few months. (hint: sinuses, perforations, gall stones, houses, paw-licking, unemployemnt and over-working). Needless to say, the Son [...]