ailments

monday / daughter has to go into hospital / for a planned operation / thankfully, home by the evening / but a long day ...

tuesday / daughter, recovering / I, foolishly, tried to catch up with tasks ...

wednesday / daughter back to school / having to sit a chemistry test (which has been brought forward a day, at short notice) / she fails the test, and is subsequently told that she isn't working hard enough / I go back to work ...

thursday / wife is feeling the effect of stronger antibiotics / the medicine is making her more ill than she was / son goes back to school, having been at home since the weekend, coughing ...

friday / wife is told that she can switch to different antibiotics / I make it through the working day, just ...

challenges

November - autumn has truly arrived - Christmas (dare I say it) isn't far away - and, it's the month of people on the internet setting themselves targets - write a novel, make progress on a thesis, publish a blog post every day - a year ago, one of my alter egos managed to upload a photo to blipFoto every day for a month ...

and, no / I'm not rising to the challenge this year / but (surely) it won't do any harm just to put a photo here / taken this morning as we took the dog (now 20 weeks old, we reckon) for a walk: