Hahahaha, that's true! If I'd known just how hard parenting would be I might well have chickened out. But I'm glad she's here now.

Well, we made it almost 2.5 years before we ever had to take our kid to the emergency room. That's how we spent our Sunday. And yesterday was check-ups. But she is going to be all right, and she's already much, much better. It's wonderful to see her smile and toddle around again. My heart is singing

It's like when computers used to have CD trays and you popped one out and it went brrrrrrrrp. That purrmiaow.

Thank you

Voters have just today left to register to vote for the local elections taking place across England on 7 May. Anyone who wants to take part must register before 11.59pm tonight.

Registering takes minutes at gov.uk/register-to-vote. Just need name, address & National Insurance number. Pass it on.

Oh no 🙄

Thank you so much for checking in! Again! I'll DM you. Yes, we had a pleasant little break from drama in March but it seems we're back in dramaville now!

Sorry for not replying yesterday - we didn't get home until after midnight. It was more serious than we'd thought - I'm SO glad we went in! It's going to be OK, I think. I'll DM. Thank you so much for checking in lots xxx

Voting Reform is the equivalent of voting twice for Trump.
It is an act of pure ignorance, or racism, or both.
And, as we all know, it leads nowhere good.

Please god UK. Do not let that happen. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from America’s mistakes.
Just get your shit together.

Thank you xxx

We're there. So frustrating waiting. But thank you for encouraging it. Better to unnecessarily panic.

Ah well, the perking up lasted an hour or two ... Paracetamol this time, ibuprofen again later ...

She's now sitting up and guzzling milk and most miffed that she's not allowed her usual amount all in one go 😆 Ideal timing, poppet. If she deteriorates again though, I'll try and persuade my husband. He's doing most of the direct care. I clean and fetch. He's so so good with her.

That would be well over 72 hours in. She's had two short periods of looking a but better and even standing up. But then its like she falls back into a firepit and either cries for hours or is silent.

Just warned sister and husband we must get all our photos off Google Photos

Yeah, we're doing what we can. Mostly little drops of milk or water onto her lips. She looks shrunken, like a first aid doll. She's still peeing a bit, thank goodness ...

Yes, I'm sure she's not the first or last. But you're right, she's never been this sick or for this long. She's totally not herself. Hospital isn't forbidden ...

Yes, we're doing both, but the effects are short lived and it doesn't always stay down.

Ipren, but only for a bit, then it rockets back up again. Hope you're OK, you don't sound too joyful this morning.

We're hanging on by the tips of our fingernails, but life keeps adding extra demands like hammers trying to knock us down. I don't know what to do. I stay calm because I have to. But I feel like we might not survive.

Kid is on day 3 of vomiting and absolutely horrific fever - half a degree higher and she'll need hospital, but she never quite reaches that point. Water will be turned off tomorrow and we're supposed to clear out the cellar for plumbers. And a dear friend my age has to go into hospice care. 😢

This is an exact conversation my husband and I were having recently. Nobody said if I didn't get a mobile phone I'd be left behind. I got one when it was clear I was better off with than without. High pressure sales is for chuggers and pyramid scheme pushers and almost always for useless nonsense.

I seem to remember him being trouble even in the 1990s when I was a teenager. He seems like some rich arrogant family member who regularly trashes the place but enough other family members refuse to discipline or kick him out so he's kept around.

That sounds like just my sort of thing. Followed both!

I keep getting a notification, but whenever I click on it, it says "forbidden". Anyone else getting this sort of thing? BlueSky has been down on and off for me a lot today.

A house with a mini observatory for an attic. And my husband would probably want a sauna.

Anyway ... all this was nice. It reminded me of how we met (me giving astronomy talks for charity and him coming to them), but most of all, it reminded me what a huge complicated world there is out there - life is not just exhausted parenthood, news rage and ChatGPT steamrollering our brain usage.

I don't really get imaginary numbers. (I'm very good at arithmetic but as soon as you bring real mathematics in it my brain stalls like a car at traffic lights.) Hard as I try, I can only picture real numbers, but operations do slightly different things, making totals a bit bigger or smaller.

To me a quaternion sounds like a subatomic particle or possibly a geological period 😄

Anyway, I don't know what happened there. Poor thing worked overtime into the night as usual and we are sleep deprived parents and our darling daughter is exhausting. We hadn't had a conversation like that for I don't know how many months or years. My brain went up in smoke ages ago.