I have had a most wonderful day fortified as it has been by some wonderful people, and excellent cake, and two charming babies, and the sky never actually shedding rain even after Z nearly doomed us all by calling the clouds' bluff.

Now that my mother is here I am finding I can get an amazing amount of stuff done and the house is looking properly gleamy and shiny for once, which makes a refreshing and surreal change.

Also, proof that I am essentially an optimist at heart- typing 'benign baby seizures' into Dr Google.