It was the flu

So, it was the flu!  Matt went down with it really badly, I got a lesser form of it.  The next couple of weeks were spent surviving rather than thriving.  We got thorough each day but only just.  The downside to running your own business is that you have to carry on regardless as you can't phone in sick!  Matt would do a couple of WOSAs and then lie down to recover and I slogged through my cakes trying not to make any silly mistakes and we were all in bed for 9pm every night.

Poor Tom!  Both parents ill and grumpy.  Weekends were spent literally lying on the sofa watching films and going to bed early - we didn't do anything interesting at all.

It took until the beginning of March before either of us was feeling any better.  Luckily we both had light work weeks that week, and Tom had a long school trip to Beamish, so we both took the day off and I booked us a day in a local spa.  We spent the day in saunas, steam rooms, jacuzzis and in an outdoor hot bath, ate healthy food and had an hour's massage.  It did us wonders - from that day on we felt much much better.

Hot tubbing

That weekend was Mother's Day and we were invited to Liz and Dave's to pod, and we actually felt up to it which was great - we got the newest pod which was wonderful and we spent Mother's Day morning in their hot tub under blue skies in wonderful scenery which did us all good.

So that was February and the beginning of March - we didn't do any fun things at all.  We all lost our fitness as well.  I haven't done a run for months, get out of breath at the most ridiculous things and Matt is pretty much the same, so we spent the end of March trying to get fit again.

The weather hasn't been particularly good to us - we've had lots of snow, Tom had a day off school, which is apparently unheard of in Ingleton.  We lost a couple of ridge tiles off the house during the 'Beast from the East Storm' which was pretty wild.  Very few houses in Ingleton were unscathed.  Friday was actually the worst day, luckily the school re-opened and Tom couldn't wait to go as he was worried the house was going to blow away.  We took him in the car as there was so much debris in the air we were worried he might get hit by something.  Loads of kids didn't turn up as parents deemed it too unsafe to leave the house because of the wind.

When it hasn't snowed, it has rained.  So we would have been pretty much stuck inside anyway.

I've also had the busiest Jan, Feb and March ever - normally a good thing, but this year with bad weather and illnesses it would probably have been better for it to be quiet!

Anyway, enough tales of woe, I will start the blog again when things were on the up...