I’m still in full flow with my NaNoWriMo novel, but the jobs are stacking up to be done. I haven’t started my Christmas shopping yet, not to mention the tons of Christmas cards that I need to finish making, write out and get into the post. We’re going to try and tackle a Christmas tree this year, hopefully without too many Autistic melt-downs, so that needs to be bought and put up, and Little Nutter is cheerfully making everyone Christmas stockings at Fun Club. If you think of Mickey Mouse reproducing all those brooms in Fantasia, you’ll get the general idea of the chaos at the moment.

The house is a mess - there’s a pile of laundry the size of Everest to do before I can pack the Chatterboxes suitcase for their trek to Grandma and Grandpa’s on Thursday. Once they’ve gone, it’s time to excavate their rooms into some semblance of normality before they’re back. Little Nutter’s room needs stripping out and repainting as well in preparation for his new SafeSpace arriving hopefully early in the New Year.

Not to mention all the end of year testing and exam scripts that need to be marked, recorded and targets set for 2009. But what’s that between friends?

In a word - ARGH!