We've had our first official visitors, Mamilein and Papichen came to stay with us over the bank holiday weekend to take them all over the place. We were going to visit Halifax, Blackburn maybe even take a trip into Manchester. I was so excited I hadn't seen them since Christmas. Then Papichen got a bug, it was a stinker of a bug (in fact most of Europe got this bug and it was nasty). He was very weak and couldn't eat much food/keep food down so his diabetes wasn't being very well managed which in turn made him lethargic and very confused. He spent the first day hobbling around Bury market (he still isn't quite fully recovered from last year's accident), the second day he was so weak from the previous day and the lack of any decent food that he was very confused and had the attention span of a about three minutes. It was very worrying and for all of us a reminder that we are all getting older and haven't got the stamina of twenty year old anymore.
That being said, they got home safe and sound and are both feeling better. While they were here we did manage to do a spot of sightseeing. Mamilein especially didn't want to spend her whole visit inside watching TV, so I made the most in a break in the clouds and took her to Hollingworth Lake, over the tops to Baitings Reservoir and for a wander along the Rochdale Canal in Mytholmroyd to see the geese.
It was lovely to see them as always, here's hoping that the next visit will be a more comfortable one, Ryanair all the way.
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