My goodness me! So many lovely messages!!! I can’t tell you how excited I get when I see them… Ok – I will: I get more excited than a very excited thing jumping up and down and very nearly (but not quite) wetting her pants. That is a LOT of excited, I can tell you.

I have been away from here for too long – I’d forgotten just how happy it makes me to sit here at my pretty pink laptop and chat away to everyone – I feel as though I’ve got all my friends over for tea and freshly baked biscuits. I am actually baking biscuits right now – chocolate chip cookies for the Wees to have for their 6:00am snack before darling Mr Dotty gets up to feed them their real breakfast. It is a new recipe, so I’ll wait until I see if it works before I share it with you.

Now, I’m obviously being rather a marvellous mummy right now (and watching bits of Black Books – have you seen it? It is SO funny), but the reason I’ve been away is that I’ve had a horrible infection of my sinuses that has taken months to diagnose and it rather knocked me for six, and that with all the shenanigens of end-of-term has meant that I have not been my usual industrious self.

I shall start by replying to as many questions as I can tomorrow, then we’ll settle in to our tea (or coffee, even sherry if you like!) and biccies and have a good old chat.

See you later, sweeties xxx