We’ve all got little sniffs and wheezes. In fact, Gabby has a nasty cough, is off her food and slept alot today. Jeanie got back from ballet (at the new later time as she has gone up a set of lessons) and was hot and thirsty.
In the end, she was so lathargic and hot that we cooked up the Secret Parent Magic Potion in our special caldron, otherwise known as Calpol. Now, Jeanie has Six Plus Calpol and the special thing about Six Plus Calpol is that it is not pink but white (which is useful at 3am when you sleepily get Calpol out for your baby and your brain really does notice that it isn’t pink and therefore you have the wrong bottle).
This is a stumbing block for the taking of the medicine as you see, children get addicted to the sickly, strawberry pinkness of it and will take no other (Boots OwnBrand for instance is white and will not be taken). I know it is sickly because I had a terrible headache once and no tablets in the house. I tried Calpol. I’m not sure if it helped with the headache, but it made me sick.
Luckily, Calpol Six-Plus is still sickly strawberry tasting, so we tricked Jeannie into taking her medicine. You see, she now believes she is old enough to have Magic Pink Calpol. It isn’t pink, but it is magic because it still tastes like it is pink.
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