What is it with this weather? Guarenteed the moment the sun comes out and the air gets hot i get a migraine. Well not so much a migraine as a cluster headache. You’ve probably heard me moan about them before because they can be a complete bastard. They are worse than migraines but thankfully they dont last anywhere near as long. The only problem is in this weather I can get 3-4 of them in a day where as I’d usually only maybe get 1 every 2 months normally.

I keep getting asked how a cluster headache feels and I never seem to work it out. Imagine if you can stubbing your toe hard on a doorframe whilst wearing only sock and doing it repeatedly for about an hour. Now if you were to condense that into maybe 5 minutes and condense the pain at the same time you might start to come close. Add into that the feeling that one of your eyeballs is about to explode due to it expanding inside your skull and someones trying to pop it with a sharp knife at the back of the eye. The only way I can deal with them is to walk up and down the office or the hall at home. The only problem with this just now is whenever I’ve been getting them I’ve been that busy that I cant step away from my desk for teh few minutes it would take to get over it.

I never started getting them until I hit about 19 years of age and I only ever really got them when I was on holiday so I alwasy just put it down to a really bad hangover, bright sunshine and to much ice cold Sprite drank too quickly to cure the hangover. Now I know different but it doesnt make it any easier to handle

If you ever have children or ever look after children on christmas eve night…do not under any circumstances let them sleep in your bed.

For an xmas treat Finn was allowed to sleep with us now that we’ve got the mattress for the bed. I was knackered after the xmas eve assault course but I think I managed 30 mins sleep before Finns windmilling in bed and constant moans to get a drink (he’s not allowed anything after a certain time as he sleeps that soundly he sometimes has trouble getting up and awake enough in time to make it to the toilet when he’s really bursting…depends how deep a sleep he’s waking up from…and he will kill me for this when he’s older) before Vonnie snapped at 4.30 and gave him a sip of her juice. He still kept windmilling though so I was still awake at 5.30am.

I decided enough was enough and went through to the couch after moving him to my side of the bed to let Vonnie get a bit of sleep. I stuck on my Long Way Round DVD in an attempt to numb my brain enough with the scenery that I would fall asleep. It didnt work and at 5.45am the neighbours downstairs kids woke up and started playing with a musical instrument they’d been given and then at 6.30 put on thier new cd/turned on their new hifi. Luckily a cluster headache had hit me before 6am so I had something to take my mind off the noise…

We had trouble waking up Finn after 8am as he was ‘tired’ but as he was ‘a good boy Santa would have came so the presents would be there’ when he eventually decided to wake up. You cant fault the kids logic…

Lots of ‘s becuase there was no Thunderbirds stuff (which we didnt really know he wanted as he’d only told his dad) and lot’s of ‘s when he found out how much Lego he got.

I made Xmas dinner and for someone thats never cooked a whole chicken before or used a steamer I was impressed with how it came out. I wish my cooker had one of those warming sections on it though as the dinner suffered from the usual ‘too much food and only a small cooker’ speedy cooling down once it hit the plate. Loads of leftovers though so I think a homemade curry is on the cards one night this week.

Most impressed with my presents this year although the scarf Vonnie made me and the greenday DVD Scott gave me are fighting a losing battle with my new dressing gown for the spot of favourite present. I’ll see how they get on once I actually get dressed though as I get the feeling they might get back into the game then