It's been the house of lurgy the past few days which is one reason for there being no blips on either Monday or Tuesday.

The middle boy threw up just after school on Monday, all over me as it happens (I'm just saying by way of comment, it's not that I'll hold it against him or anything and I certainly don't intend to dock his pocket money to cover the cost of replacing my now disfigured hush puppies shoes, no no I'm fine with it), and then went straight to bed.

My lovely husband had literally just left on a long journey down south (great timing), but as all seemed ok otherwise I packed the eldest of to beavers and enjoyed an hour of quiet with the littlest.

However, just before the eldest came home I just went to check on the middle one and found him with a raging temperature and realised it was probably more than just an exhaustion sickness.

By the morning both of the older boys were suffering and so the school was called, medicine was dispensed and everyone went back to bed. My lovely husband returned late in the evening to a bomb site of a house and three sleeping boys, only one of whom was peaceful.

He was shattered after a long day of driving and the funeral of a close family friend and did not take too kindly to being stung twice (by the same wasp) who was lying in wait in the towel for when he stepped out of the bath.

Today the middle one has been getting slowly better while the older one has been getting slowly worse. The littlest thankfully is remaining untouched by the bug and just as cheery as ever.

Finally now then time to stop and enjoy some shop bought confectionary while watching last night's great British bake off.