Just another lonely day
Another day without any friends, without any social contact…yadda yadda yadda.
This morning H came over with her two children. She brought us a very yummy fruit-basket. I made lots of food for lunch (and I do mean lots!) and we polished it all off, then sat in the garden all afternoon since the sun had come back out 
Meanwhile the neighbourhood kids had started to descend on us once again, so there was certainly no lack of company even after H left late this afternoon.
After dinner J arrived to pick up her barbecue (which we’d borrowed for George’s party a couple of weeks ago), along with her son J. Cue lots more kids running about, lots of noise…and lots of impatient waiting for the ice-cream van, which never did arrive. We finally managed to get all our kids in at about 9.40, but even then we had to chase some of their friends out of our garden and home!
We seem to be having a problem with power-surges or something. Since we moved in, every time we’ve turned on the pc in the dining-room, it has cut off the broadband connection, and we have to turn off the pc, then reboot the modem. If we turn on the light in the garage, that cuts off the broadband connection too, but it comes back once we turn the light off, we don’t have to reboot the modem. This afternoon, we lost all power to the electrical sockets in the kitchen and in our bedroom (which is above the kitchen and garage). The fusebox switch had tripped, but we couldn’t figure out why. Then we discovered that someone had turned on the pc monitor in the dining-room (but not the pc itself). Turned it off, flipped the switch back, all sorted…until we boiled the kettle, and then they went again. The oven still works, but this is worrying. I think we’re going to have to get someone who knows something about electrics to look at it (ie not us) - I hope this isn’t going to be expensive 
The baby is very low down in my pelvis, but seems to have taken up residence on one side of my pubic bone - ouch! Watch that pregnancy countdown ticker at the bottom of the blog - not that it actually means anything, you understand, just that I’m interested to find out what it will do once I get past 40 weeks (and I will!).
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