Dreaded Lurgi

November 21st, 2003

Uuugh. Sore raspy throat this morning. An early indicator of being ill. All in time for the weekend. I’ll be cured by Monday, I’ll bet. Bloody typical – I could so with a day off in bed.

But there are urgent things to be done today at work. So urgent that I have come in to spread my germs to everyone else. I have done this on the irrational assumption that they are doing things vastly less urgent to my own things, and can therefore take the risk of sitting in an office with someone who has a raspy throat.

Everyone is ill, it seems. My sister-in-law, hubby and nine-month old baby are visiting from Ireland and all three of them are feeling sick with the lurgi.

Baby got some early Christmas presents last night though, including a big board that plays music while you draw pictures on it with your finger in psychadelic colours.

I had baby on my knee as I tried to teach her proper use of the toy, explaining the two-point perspective system, and why it suits the landscape format when composing a picture due to the vanishing effects on vertical lines in an image being negligable. I thought it was a good starting point, but she preferred to make baby-fist-shaped splodges instead.

She’ll get it eventually though.

I did risk asking the question ‘So, do I suit a baby on my knee?’ to which the answer was ‘No.’

Thank fuck for that, as they say.

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