Coventry: 9-21 April 2007

Demam 09.04.07 - 20.04.07

Two days after we came back from our get-away, Sarah and Amar were down with fever. Their temperature rose especially in the evening and when they were asleep in the night. Whenever they are ill, I hardly sleep myself.

Sarah was as flat as a pancake for a few days. She slept continuously and got me feeling sorry for her. Upon my discretion, she was rested at home and missed going to the nursery.

Amar was equally unwell. He lost his appetite and basically ate nothing apart from his regular milk. Even that, he hardly finished his usual dose.

Alhamdulillah they are much better now. Sarah has resumed her attendance to the nursery (more update on this particular matter next time).

On Saturday (14.04.07) Babah felt unwell too. That made three of them who just slept through the whole day and night. Luckily we were still blessed with plenty of sunshine the next day. And better still the three of them seemed slightly better. We immediately took the opportunity to go out and enjoy the daylight. Nowhere spectacular, but just at 'our very own' town centre.


The not so Lunch
Arep and Dina were kind to join us that sunny day and met us at the Old Cathedral. It was noon time and Amar was really cranky, (I suspected) he wanted his bed for his afternoon nap. We all felt very relieved when Amar finally fell asleep in my arms. Then, we quickly found our way to the nearest restaurant for a quick lunch. When the food was served, Amar woke up and started to make a lot of fuss. The restaurant was a bit too posh for a poorly child, so I decided to leave the restaurant before Amar create a bawl infront of the public, while the rest finished up their meals.



Longford Park

Amar was still restless, we thought that we should just head home immediately after lunch. We made our separate ways and once we were in our car, Amar was smiling and calmed down. Instead of going straight back home, we made a detour and went to Longford Park.

Longford Park was "founded" by D and her family. It's funny that they have just been in Coventry for less than a year but they knew so much more than us. We sometimes asked her for directions in the area where we ourselves have lived in for three years!

We fell in love with the park instantly! There's a little river running through the park.

Weeping willow trees lining along the stream and specially designed track for a pleasant riverside walk.

There were lots of flowerbeds with different colourful flowers.


A huge space for the children to run around.


And enough greens for Amar to bury himself in.

There's a little bridge crossing over the river, leading us to the children's play area, football pitches and a skatepark.

It was obvious that both our children loved the park. (Thank you D!) They automatically became much, much better after a good run around in the open space.


Be warned you all, we visited the park again and again after that. More updates (yes I'm slacking with my entries) in the future.


Long lost friend: 21 April 2007

I became aware about Azura's whereabouts from EM's blog. With EM's help, I obtained Azura's email address and managed to get in touch with her. Azura and EM were my school friends that I have not met since many, many years ago. (Notice the word "many" used?) Azura who was also my ex dorm-mate, is married and currently residing somewhere ("somewhere" merely means I do not want to be specific) near London.


To cut the story short, Azura came to Coventry to visit us. She brought with her lots of buah tangan for the whole family! Obviously she still remembers her 'adat ketimuran' even though having lived and 'probably' married to this country permanently.

We had a really pleasant time with our "you ingat tak ..." and god knows how much fun we had, reminiscing the good old time. By the way, thanks to Babah too for letting me spent some time out with my long lost friend.

I only took Azura to Nandos for dinner and didn't get to show her the real beauty of our little town as it was already getting dark. Hopefully some photos in this entry are good enough to represent Coventry.