We’re only just in the door at school and now the bugs have hit [Video]

LAST UPDATE | 17 hrs ago

IT’S NOT THAT I mind them being sick. Honestly. And I’m not saying she is doing it on purpose.

But I mean, there wasn’t as much as a sniffle over the entire Summer, despite some really questionable behaviour (I saw her eat a dropped M&M from the floor of a bus in Tenerife), and now here we are, back to school, and the poor thing is laid out on the couch wailing in despair.

She had a desperately sore throat on Friday morning, but I sent her to school anyway (not easily, mind you). Although she lasted the day, she was really under the weather by that evening, which was absolutely grand because a Friday evening cold is completely different to a Monday morning cold.

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