February 25, 2006: Sickness, unemployment and agility

Thursday night Gwen suffered the stomach bug which is doing the rounds. I’ll spare the details but two changes of bedding were needed and she didn’t get much sleep that night so she stayed at home the next day.

Friday Mia went off to girl camp. This is where 200 girls aged between 6 and 12 go to a gym hall half an hours drive away and do gymnastics in their pyjamas. Then they all get their sleeping bags out and go to sleep onthe floor. You won’t be surprised to learn that Mia didn’t get to sleep until 2:0 am. But the next day she learned how to somerault in the air. However by mid-afternoon after being picked up at lunchtime, she was fast asleep on the sofa!

Meanwhile in the adult world, an admin assistant was fired at Anne’s institution because they are losing money. So everyone is asking – who’s next on the list? And over at Kalø the Government have just announced that they will be absorbed into the university system within a couple of years and all the non-scientists are looking at each other and wondering if they will still have a job once the merger takes place. Insecure times.