What a mess!

For the last two mornings Laura has been sick, yesterday it was terrible as she'd just had about 350ml of fluids, feed and meds and it all came up over me, over her and over the lounge! Not a good start to the day. So Mick took her to be bathed and I set to cleaning the mess up. She seemed fine in herslef so we sent her in to school. I've decided to use her pump to give the morning and evening feeds from now on. It puts the feed through more slowly but does require her to be strapped into her buggy which she doesn't like when inside the house. I did it this morning and all was fine, so that is the plan from now on.

We went round to look at the new house again yesterday and as look would have it the next door neighbour came home soon after we arrived so she invited us round to her back garden to see what she has planned. TBH it isn't going to affect us much as the lorries etc will access the plot via the railway apparently and we won't be able to see the houses except maybe from the highest part of our garden at the back. There are a couple of aspects I raised with the neighbour, like a triangular piece of land that borders ours and she offered to look into putting a covenant on it to prevent any high summer houses/log cabins!! Also there is an existing fence that will be partly replaced by a 6 foot high wall and I have suggested it all be replaced with the wall as this will look better from our back garden and apparently the wind does tend to blow the fence rather.

I saw A (who lives on the other side) this morning and chatted to her about it. She and her husband are not too pleased, understandably as they will be able to see at least one of the houses from their back garden. She is really upset because the owner lied to her about what she had planned and A has given her a lot of help and support in the past few years whilst she has been ill.

Our main concern is that the cul-de-sac of 5 houses will become 8 houses as Peter on the other side of us has already sold the bottom third of his garden and a "cottage" is nearing completion. It is not a cottage at all but a very large dormer bungalow, probably having about 5 bedrooms I would think. Again it doesn't impact us greatly as it is at the back of the far side of the plot, although I noticed yesterday that a large tree that was obscuring it has been removed. I think we shall put a large summer house up there and move the smaller one that is there to the other side where it can be a play house for Laura.