Started with a tickle in my throat yesterday afternoon, now feeling quite a lump when I swallow … am downing Lemsip and vitamin C in the hope I don’t get a cold or flu or whatever it is that everyone else seems to have had this winter that we’ve so far avoided. Even stayed home from Gotham this morning and had honey on toast at home.

Went to M…M……..M..M…..McDONalds for dinner last night – well we joined niece Amy and her family for her 6th birthday dinner. The Mister thought it was *such* a treat having his OWN burger and I tried (albeit not very well) to join in but it was quite hard to sit in a relaxed manner at a ‘polite’ distance from the table of trays of tumbling food and sauces and avoid strange kids (nothing to do with our family) coughing all over me and shining a torch in my eye and ear and declining all offers of food while maintaining an ‘isn’t this fun?’ expression.

However – we went. We like joining our nieces for something on their birthdays, even if just to call by the house. They’re growing up so fast. I think the next birthday visit is a teddy bear’s picnic in 100-acre wood (now …. where’s my teddy?)

And it made my day when Amy was thrilled her present was wrapped in orange cellophane and spent quite a bit of time lovingly folding it to keep after saying in her outside voice “orange is my FAVOURITE colour!”