Wipe Out....

Hello there!

I thought I had better pop my head in to show that we are still alive!

It all started last week when Hubby came home feeling rough, he did make it into work but felt so ill he came home again, stopping at the doctors on the way, only to find he had.... influenza A. Great!

Next day, Ebi-kun goes off to school as usual, I'm feeling rough so instead of getting stuck into my work, I decide to lie down for a few minutes... 3 hours later I'm running a fever and feeling like a dogs old chew stick.

Off to the Dr I go and yes, the same and whilst I am at the clinic, school call to say Ebi-kun has a fever too so hubby went to pick him up. Needless to say we were all in bed by 6pm and there we basically stayed for 48 hours!

Not much fun being the nursemaid when you feel like a death warmed up zombie yourself.

We pretty much spent the whole week either in bed or on the sofa, feeling very sorry for ourselves. Ebi-kun managed to finish Never Ending Story which has been a monster book for him to read, so at least came out of the week with a smile of his face.

So, we are all back at work/school. And I have a pile of blogging to catch up on! 

Ice-Cream Wars

I has been an exciting week with the whole Ikea feature, I still have to keep pinching myself! Unfortunately it has been somewhat over shadowed by us all being sick! Not only that but the hay-fever season has started so add extra sniffles and itchy eyes into the mix - what fun, not!

Our local click is a father and son outfit, the son is great and I have discovered he actually speaks English, unfortunately I got to see the father yesterday. He has had a tracheotomy, so he uses a little gadget to speak, which makes him sound, somewhat like a cross between Darth Vader and a dalek. This makes trying to understand his Japanese really, really difficult. The only thing I came away understanding, is that I don't have diabetes! The other problem when I go to the doctor here is if I am the one who is sick, all my Japanese leaves me and I can't remember ever the easiest of words - so annoying, brain fog.

I left armed with herbal medicine, eye drops and nasal spray for the hay fever and painkillers for the mystery pain in the back/kidney.

The good thing about being sick is that it gives you a genuine excuse to buy ice-cream! I have seen these special edition Haagan Daas flavours about so it was a perfectly good reason to try them out!

Japan has this thing about season special flavours, it is quite amazing really. You can buy kit-kats in all kinds of weird and wonderful flours, I have to say, with kit-kats just the regular plain Jane flavour is my favourite. Anyway, back to ice-cream...

Hands down, the Rose flavour wins, it really reminded me of Turkish Delight, especially with the jelly topping, rather yummy, Ebi-kun preferred the rose too. The sakura - cherry blossom was nice but in a bland sort of way, I didn't not like it but I won't be in a hurry to buy it again. 

I think the rest of the day will entail curling up on the sofa with the boy and a book and a film. If anyone wants to pop by and make me some nice chicken soup, that would be lovely!