Holiday Camping

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Hello to everyone and may you all be blessed with a wonderful and happy day. We have just returned from a short camping trip with my Son, daughter-in-law and the grandsons. The camping site is called "Tanglewood" which is a new place for us to visit. It was fabulous not to mention hectic with having three seasons in one day, frogs that scared the living daylights out of me, and a little heat stroke that made us sleep for a 16 hour stretch on arriving back home. The children loved their first adventure on the Bass fishing boat and Grandad and Papa were only too eager to entertain them with crab catching, pond fishing, rock tossing into the water, swimming in the small pool on site and of course the braai and outdoor eating delights that are different to home style. Do you ever take the children to new places as well? My medications are at last finished, since the spider bite. We have established that the spider must have been a "brown button spider" which to most people, are quite harmless - however to a person with allergies as mine, its a bit of a problem. "Brown button spiders: the symptoms occurring after a bite from one of the brown buttons are milder and tend to be restricted to the bite site, characterized by a local burning sensation which may spread to the surrounding tissue and lymph nodes. The bite site is more evident and often seen as a red macular spot or blanched area surrounded by a localised rash. The condition usually clears up within a day or two." or in my case 14 days due to my allergies. I have been warned that the next spider bite 'could' be fatal, and that is a frightening thought indeed. I thank everyone for the get well soon wishes - I still have two very swollen lymph glands, one under my chin and one at my ear. Hopefully, they will eventually subside and the misery and discomfort will be a thing of the past. Have a wonderful build-up to the end of 2017, and while preparing for a fresh start in the '18, wisely take note of the things you dont want to ever repeat again!