Poor Jamie, my soon-to-be-11-year-old daugh­ter, has developed Chicken Pox! She’s not very happy about it — she’s had to miss out on a slee­p­over. The spots star­ted break­ing out yes­ter­day, which means she prob­ably got infec­ted in the last few days at school.
She’s not too ill with it, thank­fully, though off her food some­what. She’s cur­rently lying on the sofa watch­ing CBBC and check­ing for new spots in a mir­ror. As each one erupts, she’s been giv­ing it a name! I think Tre­vor was the first one, and we’ve had a Bob and a Tessie. Sadly Tre­vor has now expired and gone crusty!

We are all hop­ing she’ll be OK in time for her birth­day on the 21^st!