Since I watched The Returned last night I won't mention that organ and tempt fate...... But it's all good news Betsy
(Returned is great, I don't normally go for that sort of thing but it is done with French accents, shags, shrugs and Gauloise, and actually very clever and emotional, and more Twins peaksie than the usual Zombie/ vampire stuff around these days. I'm hooked. Also the place the teens meet is called the "Pub" pronounced Purb 
and it creases me up when there is a long stretch of incomprehensible , to me, French and then they say Purb....)
MAS don't worry about T at the post prom party, the otherworldly ones tend to have already realised the binge drinking thing is not cool and not for them, and by 16 they can stand up for themselves and not be so easily influenced. Little Copt and her friends are really not interested and even with Big Copt who was more of an Inbetweener we only had a couple of incidents of people being falling over drunk. I actually let them post 16 meet and have some drink, not spirits, in the garden as I would rather it was under my nose than in the park or bus shelter or wherever . I expect the field is under someone's nose? I would just make sure he realises that the drink of choice for the cool gang these days is often Vodka, decanted into Coke or water bottles, the bus shelter has changed...... The problems often seem to occurr when they don't realise that a little can make you very drunk. Actually Little Copts group seem happy with Pear Cider which has a very low % proof and you would probably explode with flatulence before you could get drunk .
Great that your illustration turned out well, when it's a struggle it is all the more rewarding.
gigs Glad an early night worked. It sounds as though resigning yourself to lots of rest is the way to go.
malt Consultants never put a positive slant on it, they have if anything to throw it all at you. He may have been nice but he will have most definitely not given you false hope. And you have been picking the scab again You really will be back at work with the children by the start of next year. My Dyslexia can be a strength in many ways and one of them is that I can skim read a Consultant's letter, because I can't concentrate on so much dense gobbledygook, and only the odd word goes in, usually the word and. It is very handy.
ruby I am frolicking in the garden too, and in honour of collours conversation I am wearing green, which is appropriate, except that I garden in girls old hoodies, so they are Roxy Animal and especially gratifyingly A and F , as I'm sure that that CEO really would hate his hoodies being worn by fat old ladies shovelling manure, so they are ahem, blue......