2 More Sleeps till Plane-time (including the one I am about to have when I press 'Publish')

• After almost 26 years of sucessfully never having one, this time last week I had an ingrown toenail. The pain of which can only be understood by someone else who has had one. Considering the miniscule area of injury, is totally unreasonable pain. So I spent the large part of the weekend limping, tending to my big toe and wimpering in pain. Today? Another ingrown toe. Same place, different foot. You wouldn't believe it.

• Lately at night, when I am lying in bed trying to sleep, I think of my little Fred, blissfully asleep a few feet away. And I start to miss him. I kid you not - even though I spend every waking minute catering to his every need - the minute I have time to myself... I don't want it! I actually sit there sort-of hoping that he wakes up so I have to take his sweet little body in my arms and rock him back to sleep. I never expected to feel like this, and I wonder if I will be able to enjoy the freedom that having two sets of grandparents at hand will give me for the next month....Actually. WIth a few drinks in me, I'm sure it will be quite fine. So long as my friends dont mind me boring them with Fred stories.