Sunday 15th July

Normally the postman comes at about 11 o'clock in the morning. Not on Saturdays. On Saturday he is usually here just after 7 o'clock. And then the race starts as each child tries to be first to get the post and bring it up the stairs.

Major won the race to the post this morning and immediately started shouting "It's from the hospital, it's from the hospital! Your dates here mummy!" And so it was.

When most poeple are heading off on their summer holidays, I'll be packing my case for a weeks all-inclusive stay in the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald :-)

Perfect timing, I still get to march on the 12th July before I have the surgery ;-p