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Well, our car is fixed and we’ve been making the most of it. Scratchy picked it up on Friday, then took ages to get home because of an accident on the motorway link road. Yesterday he had an all-day tutorial, so I:
- took Barney, George and Freddy to swimming class for 9.30, and waited for them
- showed Barney and George where to wait for their trampoline class to start, then took Scratchy to his tutorial (and rescued a little dog at the end of the street, it was wandering about in the middle of the main road and its demise was inevitable – I went and got it, noticed an open door on a nearby house which had been converted to flats, pulled the dog by the collar towards that and the dog took off indoors – hope it belongs to someone in one of the flats, but at least it wasn’t wandering about the main road anymore!)
- drove back to where the Scouts were meeting for their weekend camp, and left Barney’s night-bag (with sleeping bag etc in it) with the rest of them
- went to Tesco and bought groceries and also got some sweatpants for Barney
- went back to pick up Barney and George
- took the boys for fast food for lunch (no time for anything else)
- drove out to where the Scouts are camping to drop off Barney (and had a wander around the very impressive Scouting Centre)
- went and spent an hour visiting friends who’ve just bought a house close to the campsite
- picked up C from his tutorial
- came home and cooked dinner

I think we’ve all had enough of being in the car for now!

The kids who are left at home are now watching a Spiderman DVD. M was hoarse and coughing slightly at the beginning of the week and has kindly passed his germs on to the rest of us. Jack is the worst-affected – poor kid is so snotty it’s barely credible, and his breathing is so rattly that at one point I thought it was Toby crying. It was a rough night with him. Freddy is coughing very slightly, think I started dosing him with vitamin C just in time. George seems better but says he still feels “slightly ill”. Toby seems to have all but escaped (fingers crossed). I’m slightly congested but more bothered by what appears to be a pulled muscle in my chest.

Toby is changing fast. Up until now, it’s been mum-and-nobody-else-will-do, but this morning he was sitting in my arms and watching Scratchy, and when Scratchy left the room, Toby started to wail. He stopped immediately when Scratchy walked back in. It was nice for Scratchy, who I think was starting to feel a bit like a spare part, and it’s nice for me, as it means I can go off and do something for a little while and know that Toby is happy

Have to go pick up Barney at 1 o’clock, hope he wasn’t too cold in a tent overnight! Mollycat didn’t come home again last night – hope she shows up before I have to go for Barney