5 Things I Have Learned This Week:

1: You spend the six weeks of summer praying for school to start again and the minute it does, you wish they were all back home again because it's far too quiet. And THEN you realise that this is what it feels like when the torture stops

2: I was entirely right not to take up a career in the medical profession *props post-operative man in corner, feeds him painkillers, drinks wine*

2: The easiest way to stop a teenager wanting her bellybutton piercing is to take her to have her bellybutton pierced.

3: That I wish I'd known that before spending three months being nagged about it.

4: THERE ARE CHRISTMAS ADVERTS ON THE TV, CHRISTMAS PRESENTS IN THE SHOPS AND CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATES IN THE SUPERMARKETS AND IT IS TOO SOON I TELL YOU, MUCH TOO SOON. I WILL NOT BE PANICKED. I WILL NOT BE PANICKED

5: There are http://www.xmasclock.com/  days until Christmas .......... *panics*