Miss Popularity

NOT!

Not even close. Not yesterday anyway. But come on; I am so sick of being sick it isn't even funny. So tired. So sick and tired of looking sick and tired. All of you who I am going to see in the States shortly, brace yourselves; it isn't pretty this face -- but I'll be smiling so that's what matters. So you just keep those tanned faces straight from summer smiling too and we'll be fine, just fine.

And poor Lloyd. I have never heard a child cough so hard and so much in the night through sleep as he has been doing. Night after night after night.

And he's got no appetite. Now that's hard to take. Because feed him is what I do. And now he's not hungry so now what.

It'll be alright.

And we've got the countdown! 10 days to go until we get on and off a few airplanes and arrive the same day in Boston! Very exciting indeed.

I'm interested in this first visit to see how I feel about things and what reactions I have to the way things are and the way things are done and I'm sure I will quite naturally find myself comparing here and there.

I'll write about it here so watch this space.