Christmas and New Year were certainly different! I got flu on 20th December and
was laid up until last week. I didn’t get off the sofa, no festive food, drinks,
crackers etc. I also had a chest infection but I’m on the mend now, just feeling
incredibly tired a lot of the time. What a horrid illness, I have never in my
life, been off my feet for that long. I kept thinking “what on earth would have
happened to my bugs if I hadn’t retired in October?”
Anyway, onto happier
things, the SEAS show in Kent is Sunday week and I’m really looking forward to
it. Catching up with friends and bug life in general. My old bug room
renovations came to a grinding halt when I fell ill so I can’t get carried away
as I would have nowhere to put anything new. I may get a couple of praying
mantids (a photographer friend really wants to photograph them but knows nothing
about keeping them) and I’m still thinking about buying Milo a Mexican Red Knee
spider for his birthday next month. He will only be 2 but he loves Nanna’s bugs.
He helps me feed my tank of mixed cockroaches and crickets every week. We now
know that Milo will be having a little sister in 2026 😁
My husband was super
when I was ill, he too had flu but it didn’t take hold like it did with me. I
can’t fill up the house with exotic creatures, it just wouldn’t be fair, we
already have large vivariums for my snakes and the crickets chirping drive my
husband nuts. I can honestly say, I don’t even notice the noise. When my room is
finally ready I will move all bugs back in there and set up my gym (I can’t wait
to get back to fitness – my daily steps have taken a nose dive). I am determined
that it will be my ‘chill out’ room and not a play room for my gang of
grandchildren 😂
I have just counted up the days until Spring. I’m rather
wishing I hadn’t! It is 74 days, I can’t believe it, I hate the cold 😠 Also,
who moved Spring this year? I thought 21st March was Spring, why does my diary
say 29th? I think I will stick with 21st, that makes it 66 days which sounds
very slightly better. I have watched a lot of ‘A Place in the Sun’ over the last
few weeks, dreaming of owning a little place to jet off to has kept me sane
(sane-ish). It’s a great program, I’ve always been a dreamer, I have been
learning Spanish on Duolingo for years (just in case I win the lottery) 😂 In
reality, I use it as brain training, I don’t think I will ever speak Spanish and
if I had the money to buy a place in the sun, Cyprus would always be my chosen
destination. I can’t speak a word of Greek, I can’t even pronounce most of the
names in Cyprus, it’s a good job almost everyone speaks English 😄 I’m hoping we
can go and visit our favourite Cypriot hotel in the Spring but with our
granddaughter due in May, and commitments to do our local, annual reptile survey
(which I love), it might not be possible. It’s actually very inconvenient that
the baby is due in May. Last May we saw quite a few snakes in Cyprus but I
accidently missed the BTS show. I promised Ray that I would be there this year
but the baby is due on the same day as the show! (obviously, only joking,
nothing is more important than my grandchildren). Cyprus will still be there and
the show will be on again next year.
Oh my god, I have just re-read my last blog
entry! It was just to check that I wasn’t repeating myself. Wow, I had Christmas
all planned out, no it isn’t my favourite time of the year but I can’t believe I
was so optimistic and it went so spectacularly wrong 🤣🤣 My daughter has said
that she is putting me into isolation from December 1st this year. I have had
repeated bouts of Covid around Christmas (once testing positive on Christmas Day
itself). I did have a flu jab, what more could I do?
Anyway, last couple of
bits. It’s strange* writing a blog without the bugs but a sufficient number of
people still read it so I will keep writing. I have had many messages since my
Facebook post last week, it seems this awful flu has hit a lot of people so I
thought I would just say if you have it, I hope you feel a lot better soon. When
I went to hospital, it was really weird that one of my neighbours, who lives
opposite, was there too with flu! Roll on the warmer weather and the end of the
flu for all! Remember only 77/66 days to go 😊
*Probably not strange, just
difficult to write a blog when you haven’t done anything. Will try harder next
month!
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