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29 April 2016 at 09.11
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Life with Fester, Ferretfingers and Thunderthighs: an obsessive entomologist turning mining historian and our two autistic sons. This blog has been prompted by family and friends reading facebook posts and saying "You should write a book". But I don't know how to go about that so they'll have to make do with this.
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29 April 2016 at 09.11
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Last Thursday afternoon Fester returned from the Mining Institute looking even paler and grumpier than usual.
On Friday morning I included this in the email to my blog-mailing-list
Fester’s habit of taking to bed is why Mrs Eft now refers to him as the Little Hot House Plant, however on this occasion her response was
He was well enough by Saturday morning to go on the bus to Alnwick with Ferretfingers. When he came home he returned to bed. At bedtime he asked
On Sunday morning he and Ferretfingers went to North Shields.
On their return Fester admitted it had been a stressful trip and that the tablets hadn’t had much effect. He took two of the new ones which, thankfully, seem to have done the trick.
I got everything out of the ‘medicine cupboard’ and discovered:-
These are all being disposed of (Middlesister would approve).
Wondering why we had so much anti-diarrhoea stuff I remembered we’d brought most of it back from Sheffield (Fester’s little brother had problems).
Even so that was in 2012, when some were already a good five years out of date.