Hump Day advice from the Overlook

As MANY of you will know, it is half term. ARGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Fortunately there is a functioning VHS in this cottage so I've been buying LOADS of videos for the kids at bargainous prices. Today's trawl included Oliver!/Annie double bill, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Aristocats and - brace yourselves - The Ballamory Panto special! That's right - the one where Archie and PC Plum are the panto DAMES! Oh no he isn't - oh yes, I think you'll find he is.

Anyway, as any parent will tell you, half term can be a mixed old bag. Bad days and really bad days. Yesterday was shocking, all manner of moaning (btw, watching Andrew Marr as I type and love the way the sun shines through his ears and makes them glow red) and WHAT DID I DO IN A PREVIOUS LIFE type thoughts.

So - I was feeling desperate. By 8pm I'd consumed half a bottle of the Wine Society's white and I was plastered. THEN I drank a few mugs of coffee. I was sober by midnight. So I got all the pleasure of drunken oblivion and none of the hangover pain. It was absolutely brilliant and I felt it only fair to share. Bottoms up! But don't forget to look behind you.

Does anyone else get irritated by the label post suggestions? "e.g. scooters, holidays, autumn"? I wish I had a scooter anecdote then I'd have the whole list LICKED in one post.