Well it has certainly been a week of coughing and spluttering for Ellie and me. Ellie was off school during the week. I first started to feel something wasn’t quite right on the Monday. I had gone to the gym, but was coughing at the end of the session. I worked from home Tuesday as I was doing some interviews at the school. By Wednesday I was starting to feel thoroughly rotten… I went to rehearsal, but came home, declared I wasn’t going to work on Thursday and went to bed… I woke on Thursday morning, feeling a lot brighter, and knowing I had a number of meetings on, dosed up and went in. Come the evening I was shattered. I went to work Friday, but gave up shortly after lunch when I came home and went to bed. Saturday and Sunday I have felt quite grotty. I did get up to church this morning, and I did cook the roast, but in between I have been doing nothing, and feeling like doing nothing. It’s not fair where’s the rules!

A Happy Mothers Day to Tricia and my dear old Mum. Rob took Tricia to the garden centre yesterday and bought her some plants for the garden. Tricia took the opportunity to stock up on all sorts of bags of top soil, bark, manure etc, and has been in the garden today. Nikki sent Tricia some nice flowers, and Ellie went to Aylesbury yesterday and got TRicia a photo frame and few bits. Tricia took some flowers over to her Mum.

Nikki has booked flights to come home for a week. I pick her up a week Tuesday, it will be good to catch up with her. Tricia and I have a few days away from Sunday next week, we are off to Chichester. Something to look forward to. Tricia and Ellie, before her cough and cold kicked in, went to see Fame at the Aylesbury theatre, they had a terrific time.

I mentioned earlier I had cooked todays roast, we had lamb, which I cooked in red wine – Tricia’s favourite. Ellie made some ‘key lime pies’, individual ones for pudding, and did a marvellous job. This morning in church, she was given a prize for the money she raised in the ‘ten pound challenge’. I took a photo which didn’t come out brilliant, but here it is with a pic of the ladies at Fame, and Ellie’s desert, and the flowers Nikki sent to Tricia…