Thank you so much for all the good wishes for my mum. She’s in hospital and from the initial x-rays it appears that she has 3 fractured vertebrae in her kneck. We’re waiting on results of further scans. The good news is that she regained conciousness quickly and is alert, talking and can move all of her limbs. Considering she fell around 12 ft that’s pretty good going. I’ll write more when we have more details. Thanks again for all the good wishes – I’ll be passing them on to her.

I’ve just had a call from my brother to say that my mum has had a serious accident and has been rushed into hospital. She fell from the attic through the stairwell and landed on her back near the bottom of the stairs. I’m sick with worry as we don’t yet know how badly injured she is. I’ll be away from the blog for a day or so while I go down to visit tomorrow. Please keep your collective fingers crossed for my wonderful mum and bear with me as I won’t be replying to emails for a short while.

Just thought I’d show you a picture of some of the things Amy made at the sleepover:

On the top row are the shrinkles – sheets of plastic that you draw on, colour in, cut out
and bake so that they shrink down to about a seventh of their original
size. We had some pre-printed flower fairy sheets and some plain sheets that the girls used to design their own fairies (my favourites). Below are the Bindeez – little plastic beads that you lay out on a tray and spray with water to make them stick together. Amy made a pig and a girl to her own design. Being plastic neither are particularly eco-friendly but they are great fun and quite magical to 8 year olds!