So much to say, so little time, so little will be written... To cut various stories short: the kids went to stay at my folks last week (from Thursday) and I've just picked them up now, and put them very happily to bed. They've had a cracking time - it's just so exciting:)

It's really good that they like staying at both sets of grand parents and have always got on well with them (both sets). We, as a family, are so lucky that both sets live 20 & 60 minutes away! The one downside of staying with my folks is... Jessica (the cat). Now she's a lovely old girl, but she's a cat. But for my boy with his pseudo-asthma, and excezma, that cat's a pain on his skin.

Mostly we get away with it because he's only usually there for half a day at a time, but this time it's bean four nights. And in the bath tonight his body (torso and arms, but mainly his torso) is a right horrible, quite angry mess. It's no ones fault, just his body hates cat hairs (and dogs - but we don't see any of them).

Now the kids want to go and stay at the outlaws (fine) except I don't really want him to go until his skin's settled down...