My To Do list last week –
- Launch my second novel
- Help out at Royal Wedding tea party at the school
What actually happened –
- Sick child home from school Monday
- Same child diagnosed with scarlet fever Tuesday, minister antibiotics 4 times a day with 3 hours between meals – no mean feat in itself
- Launch book in the middle of this madness
- Same child still home Wednesday but miraculous recovery has been made and she is bouncing off the walls – ‘can I go out in the garden?’ ‘can I do gymnastics?’ ‘can we go out?’
- Promoting book in a very ad hoc manner
- Child goes back to school Thursday – have to go in at 10.30 to administer meds
- Other child comes home from school Thursday and throws up
- Rinse, clean, repeat for the next 8 hours. Then the diarrhoea starts…
- Meanwhile, the chair of the PTFA gets a call from The Fat Duck and leaves me in charge of the tea party at the school (don’t blame her one bit – would do the same in a trice)
- Friday – second child is off, have to go in to give firstborn meds in the morning, then back to oversee the tea party for 430 children at 1.30
- Forgot I was going out that night – friend’s birthday treat
- Saturday, one sick child, one very bouncy child, one picnic in the park
- Saturday night, husband feels dodgy, cancels night out. The bug appears in him 4 hours before it makes its debut in me
- Sunday – absolutely wrecked. Book, what book??
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Kerry Mayo 