Crook as Rookwood

Woke about 3am feeling very sick,  with some kind of tummy bug.  Then I got those awful griping pains we all had when we had some virus or other a few years back, and then some crushing chest pains.  Things are always worse in the middle of the night, Phill wasn't here and I wasn't about to wake the kids.  I decided to wait and see with the chest pains and they eventually went away but I've still been crook all day.  I was alright if I stayed in bed so that is what I did.  So the kids didn't get woken up, and had yet another day off school, and Josh was supposed to have his breath test to see how the helioblacter was going, but there was no way I could have gotten up and dressed and got us into a taxi to do all that.  I'm the only one so far who has this so hopefully the other will escape this.  I know that I need to make up some batches of soup for the freezer as that is all I wanted today and didn't have any.  I had the doings to make some but couldn't manage that.  Phill is going down to Victoria next week for ten days or so, so the kids and I can get into a better routine and I've made them promise to do a full week at school next week.
One of the detectives rang to see how Emily was and to see if we'd seen the park wanker again and I said we haven't. He told me it had made the local news and I wondered how the media found out but then remembered the police scanner that is available to everybody, thank Goddess they didn't identify Em, I can just imagine what they'd do to her at school!  She said exactly the same thing just now when I told her.   I thought it was really nice of him to phone.  This experience has softened Em to the police too, which is a good thing.  They were really sweet and protective of her when they raced down to the park to go to her rescue.  I love our police force and there has only been one, out of the many we have had dealings with over all this stuff with Emily, that wasn't super helpful and compassionate.  We are very lucky.
Scout is crazy.  He launches himself on Harley and gets really rough with her in play, and she just cops it.  I think she is glad to have his company, she's not a young cat anymore but she puts up with his nonsense and he's even still feeding off her which is odd but she will stop him when she's ready (he's not even her kitten!)  He's got a playmat with toys hanging off it, well it did have, he's ripped three out of four of them off, and today he got underneath it and just lay there, like he was hiding, it was so funny.  Harley seems to have calmed down since she had her op, she was really good when I took her to get her stitches out, we are lucky to have a really good vet surgery here.  Now I just have to get Scouty microchipped and we're set. 
I am loving my Kindle for iPad, it's so much easier to use than my actual Kindle and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the Kindle.  I've spent my sick day reading Michael Palin's "The Python Years" and as a fan I'm really enjoying, it's written in diary form and it's interesting to read the references to other things during the 60's and 70s.  I also have his next book "Halfway to Hollywood" for when I finish this one.  I wonder if the day will come when we just don't have paper books anymore?  I have 13 books on what I just realised is not actually my Kindle, it's the iBooks app, but I have stacks of others on the Kindle app which I also have on my iPad.  the iBooks are much cheaper than paper books and take up so little room.  You still get illustrations on them and the picture of the dust cover etc.  I also downloaded a creative writing course from iTunes U, which was free.  I so love technology.