Yeah ours had that the other week It wasn't too bad at all really. Apart from the three days of nursery care I paid for but we never used.

Take a photo of yourself holding a sign saying she's got it in front of something showing today's date. This is so if there is an outbreak at her university in 18 years' time and she calls you urgently to know if she had it, you can reassure her and send the photo as proof.

Yeah, the other one looked clean, so i took her in this morning.

Chicken pox is contagious for about a week before the spots appear so you've probably just caused a nursery epidemic.

Which is a good thing. You want your child to get chicken pox.

When the Grimlet had his all the other kids came over to play

(It's contagious about two days before the spots appear until about five days afterwards)

Which is a good thing. You want your child to get chicken pox.

I think we'd probably be vaccinating against it by now if it weren't for all the MMR idiocy.

Isn't it more dangerous the older you get?

Isn't it more dangerous the older you get?

It's not an old wives tale, it definitely is the exact same virus it's just that whilst most people will develop immunity an unfortunate few won't.

I doubt it. It's not dangerous, is it?

Measles is the dangerous "spotty" one.

I think chickenpox can be a lot worse if you're older when you first get it.

Having ever had chickenpox massively increases the risk of getting shingles as an adult though and that brings it's own risks so I do wonder if that trade off is worth it.

I think the point is that it's fairly certain that you will encounter the virus at some point and it's better to do it sooner rather than later.

And encounter the virus for the first time when you have cancer, you could well die. So best to pick it up when you're a cancer free 3 year old.

8000 deaths globally in 1990, down to 7,000 in 2013 (from chickenpox).

Equivalent figures for measles were 545,000 down to 96,000.

So good work on the measles prevention team, but that is still a shitload of deaths (mostly under 5s).

Christ, they reckon it was 2.6 MILLION deaths per year in 1980.

I think we'd probably be vaccinating against it by now if it weren't for all the MMR idiocy.

My cat hasn't been himself for a couple of days. When I took him to the vet they found he had a blocked bladder and needed to be put under a general anaesthetic and have a catheter fitted. That went well, and they don't think it's caused any permanent damage to his kidneys, but it'll probably cost about £6-700 by the time I get him back.

Poor puddy cat. Good thing you caught it early though. Hope he's back to his normal self soon

The catheter was working fine overnight and he's feeling much better, but now that's blocked so they've had to remove it. Now waiting to see if he's weeing ok without it, or if they have to put a new one in

but some need to have an operation on the penis to open it up a bit

Just got images in my head of a Predator's mouth now.

I went to Blade II

My car cost me £225.

I have brakes!

Do you have a car to go with them?

I spent more on brakes today than Jazzy did on her car. Ouch.