NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART......

Joe & Nick asleep in the back of the car.


Do not read on if your the sort of person that never watches horror films, or if you press the horn in the car when you see a bird in the road........





We were having a great day in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Then Georgina rang us from home(daughter no 2). She started to relay to us how she and her 3 children decided to make fairy cakes. Now you are thinking, how could fairy cakes be like a horror film.....read on if you dare. She had Emma,Nick and Joe sitting at the table with sugar, flour, eggs, butter, and the big bowl at hand. She was going to use the liquidiser, as she felt the mixer may have been a danger with Emma's long hair. She turned to help Emma get the sugar ready, and Joe put his hand into the liquidiser, and YES, Nick accidentally turned it ON....Emma (five & half) tells the tail better in her own words, when she called me the next day "Nana we were making fairy cakes and Joe put his hands in the liquidiser and Nick turned it on and there was BLOOD all over the place and it nearly cut Joe's thumb off and he had to go to hospital and have xrays and stitches and I cried and Dad helped me and Nick make the fairy cakes". This was all in one breath. I ask how Nick was, as I know he would have been so upset. To this Emma told me "he's ok now Nana he was upset, but Joe can use his hand a bit today and he and Nick are fighting and playing wrestling still" Today Georgina called, and on asking how Joe had slept, she said that he had gone right through the night, which is more than she and Dan had done. But then they didn't have the benefit of the morphine that Joe had..... Hopefully, Joe will make a full recovery. He has to return to the hospital on Friday, to have his dressings checked. It sounds like he was a very lucky little boy, as George thought he had lost his thumb.