Yesterday I posted about bear buying a fountain pen on Friday (he's on his third cartridge - Witch Hazel, he will find an assortment of coloured in his stocking, including purple and brown!). Today I will post about what happened yesterday - the Church Fair.
There was a fair amount of people being lovely there. I always feel like I can't quite live up to some of the ladies. They really are amazing. We all know that Church Fairs, along with Village Fetes and School Fairs, can be hotbeds of bitterness and feuding which involve abiding rifts over who got which table cloth and who was promised the extra table. There was a complete lack of that. I hadn't been there for the planning so I just told them to put me down for anything they needed. That's how I came to run the Bran Tub last year, and this year I was pencilled in to run the 'match a card to win a prize' stall. However, as is common in these situations, there was a last minute change of plans and I was suddenly down for the Teddy Tombola. After seeing how the 'planning' goes here, I didn't even break step. All I can say is that they are the loveliest bunch of people who ever were in need of a proper chair, an agenda and a forceful character.
I was glad to get back home. Bear is poorly. He's got a vicious sore throat, has had an upset tummy and is losing his voice. He's not really himself today, either, and has spent all weekend in a onesie, coughing and sneezing with occasional croaks as he carries on filling up the expensive notepad with actually legible handwriting! I keep checking his eyes. He's complaining of pains behind his eyes, which to me could mean sinus pain or eye strain. However there is an outbreak of measles currently in Leeds. Bear was sent home with a Letter from Leeds City Council which laid out all the symptoms of of measles, and bear has all of them except red eyes and a rash. As the early symptoms of measles without the red eyes and rash are basically the symptoms of a bad cold/flu I'm know that it's probably a bad cold. Bear has had the MMR and there is no known measles contact. Of course I find myself worrying.
Bear is feeling low but after my refusal to spend any more on him, DH and I let him use his own pocket money to buy a computer game. It involves cars. I don't know anything about cars, but I suspect I may be about to learn. Actually, it was quite nice. We sat watching a video of one of those 3D artists while his programme loaded, chatting and admiring and it was wonderfully snug.
Hope he feels better, soon, and it is just a bad cold/cough and not the measles.
ReplyDeleteI used to run our church coffee morning with a friend and make most of the crafts to sell. I loved doing it but it did need a huge commitment and a lot of helpers. We always approached new church members first to help if they wanted to and that way they got to know and work with other members.
ReplyDeleteHope bear is getting better - I had measles as a child and lived to tell the tale - it was very common then my whole class came down with it with no adverse effects and there was no vaccine available then but neither was it anything we feared quite so much as it is now - it seems to have become one of those childhood diseases that has received a lot of bad press.