We have a very strange bug this time. I think we have been mutating and growing and developing a strain of something altogether new. If there are any scientists out there please feel free to come round with your test-tubes.

So, yesterday the doc said that I have a viral chest infection and this is having an impact on my asthma and I am probably having some kind of winter allergy thrown in. Oh, and my immune system is very low because I have not had a full night's sleep in a very long time. And now I feel pukey pukey sick.

Alice. My amazing wonderful beautiful daughter is on her way home from nursery as I write. With a temperature and clingingness. And maybe even a new something extra to stir into the big illness cauldron.

I am hoping that by sharing this problem (boring as it is) with you all, it will, as the well known adage promises, half.