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I went to Halfords to get some TLC stuff for the car: oil filter, air filter and the like…

On returning, Miho had decided that we were going out for the morning… I was starting to feel somewhat worse for wear. But I soldiered on.

Miki looked after the kids, who were now full of beans, and Miho and I went to Air Cargo Wales, Cardiff Airport, to get rid of Otousan’s excess luggage. On parking exactly where the Air Cargo Wales guy told me to, I was acutely rounded on by an Airport security guard. At this point I had just driven quite a way around South Wales and was starting to feel that my soldiering on was not in my best interests. Anyway, I used the old Jedi mind trick, held my hands out palms first and walked towards him. Unfortunately, he didn’t make eye contact (If he had he would have been putty in my hands) and I wasn’t in the mood for a discussion on his rights verses the complete lack on signage stipulating that I could not park there. I put him straight as best as a poorly feeling Jedi could, and returned to my car and parked it where he told me too.

Cheque for £241.something written, stuff weighed and away to go… All the way that is to…

Tesco. I was starting to feel really weak in Tesco. As if the dark side had eclipsed me. So we had a coffee and some food. My “poison” was scone, clotted cream and strawberry jam! Mollified, I pushed the trolley as best as a crippled Jedi could. We got back to the car and Miho said, words to the affect that, perhaps it was all in my mind… I rested in the car for a bit and drove down the lanes at 30mph (as I’ve been travelling in those lanes for the best part of 30 years, that is quite a sorry statement of affairs).

I took all the shopping in the house, went upstairs, got into bed and slept.

Don’t know what time it was when I threw up, but I threw up several times and, to be frank, it wasn’t pretty. It stank and was about as vile a concoction of bile and scone and clotted cream and strawberry jam as could be nightmared about… But at least it was all in the toilet…

At this point I think Miho got the message…

Shortly to follow that night were Miho and Miki in the decorating-the-bathroom-porcelain department.