Aloe vera plants are very cheap to buy, any garden centre would stock them - in the cacti section, or someone you know may have one with babies that you can re-pot. You can slice a small slither of a leaf on the growing plant and the leaf will 'heal' itself and close over the cut, so you can keep slicing from the same leaf. It is very economical and works better than any aloe gel in a tube IMO.
I have eaten too much cheese today. I feel mildly ill from it all. DS is being very 13 months and wouldn't eat in his high chair so I ended up feeding him chicken whilst balancing him on one hip and snatching lumps of cheese for myself as a sort of ready meal so i didn't keel over from hunger. As Gizmo would say, I am a Mother Who Tries Too Hard. I am caving in to his peculiar whims. In case you worry Aicth that I'm not BLW, I also gave him corn on the cob to chew on (whilst still balanced on my hip) and he gnawed at it with the ferocious delight and adept thoroughness of a cannibal slobbering over a thigh bone.
Today I boil washed a tambourine as DS had posted it into the machine pre-wash and I forgot to check. I love this age, they are such hard work but so very very cute and funny. All curls at the nape of the neck and baggy dungarees. He tried to climb the stairs today, fell down them spectacularly, scowled at the offending staircase then set off to have another go.