Quick update. I wrote the above this morning, before everyone had woken up. Two of the mums spent the night here with their children. When everyone else woke up (around 10) I had already tidied up and had made put out a big continental breakfast of croissants and bread, cheese, cherry tomatoes, grapes and cold meats.
They finally left at 4 today after spending the day lazing around the kitchen, eating leftovers, drinking tea and coffee and listening to the children playing in the other rooms.
It was a perfect day and I very much felt like me again. The me before him,
