You just have to love the pose, even if it is making the writing of this entry just that much harder. Lambi has the ability to make herself comfortable just about anywhere and I’ve been surprised before when I’ve seen the tiny spaces and crazy angles she manages to squeeze herself into.

She is also an excellent nurse when you feel unwell and this week I was able to discover first hand the benefits of the Nurse Lambi Miracle Cure. It is actually very rare that I feel sick. I am disgustingly healthy for some reason – something that used to make me angry when I was a teenager and wanted a day off school, especially if we had a Physics test. I almost never missed a day from school or work because of illness. But this week, I woke up feeling ill and after struggling to make breakfast for the crew, I knew I had to crawl back to bed for the day.

Enter Nurse Lambi. She won’t let anyone lay in bed alone, so she insisted on joining me and seeing if she could help. This consisted of standing with her full weight on my right nipple until it brought tears to my eyes. She then stepped back, insisted that I roll into a very uncomfortable position and proceeded to velcro herself to me. If I slid closer to the wall, she did as well. Lars-Göran peeped in and wondered why I was jammed up against the cold wall of the boat when the other 95% of the bed was free. Lambi answered with a grunt, so he backed away and left us to it. She then fell asleep, snoring loudly in my ear, then rolled over sticking her feet into my back. Boy that dog has sharp toenails! After a short time she woke up and made ME get out of bed and get HER some water, at which point I figured that it would be easier to stay up. So I was up and about after only two hours, when normally I’d be there for the day. She’s a real miracle worker.

There is a little more progress at home – we now have a floor in the bathroom!



Gee, it doesn’t take much to get me excited these days, does it?

But I have to keep positive – each step is an improvement on what was there and in a few short weeks, all this will be like a bad dream. I’ll be able to sit back and laugh.

Perhaps.
Perhaps.
Perhaps.

Oh no, not that song stuck in my head again.......