Apart from, hubby’s back is recovering nicely. From this week he only needs the wound packing every other day, which is very good news. Son no.2 goes back to School tomorrow. I can hear the sighs of relief from other Warwickshire mothers, myself included, the Christmas holidays do seem very long.

The tree is out the house it did very well, we hardly lost a needle. Very impressed I was. The last of the Christmas cake has been binned, hubby made a valiant effort of eating a whole Christmas cake to himself, but eventually it defeated him. The chocolates were demolished by the boys a long time ago. Isn’t it nice to get back to normal.