Glad you had a good(ish) time LVB. Was it lovely weather and did you get a chance to relax by the pool at all? How was all the driving? Shame the girls are ill again, just like before you went! Hopefully a very quick summer cold (though I have something like it myself and feel rotten, I thought summer colds were supposed to be much easier going).
Congrats on winning the competition! That sounds like a great prize, lucky you. What's your business, I don't think I knew that you had one?
The torch passed close to us last night and DH took the twins along to see it (I was feeling too rough for it). Sadly only the merest glimpse of the tip of a flame visible on his phone's photos so hard to get an impression of it but at least he can say he was there.
Chez Bruce was lovely, have been 3 or 4 times now and each time it's good. It was really especially nice going out for lunch without high chairs and having a chance to eat food while hot, finish a conversation etc! It has obviously been a while.
The party on Saturday was also great and we had a couple of waitresses who dealt with greeting people and doling out food and drink. They were worth their weight in gold and there was so much less clearing up to do afterwards - highly recommended. I thought we had tons of food but halfway through the afternoon DH had to phone for 4 large pizzas and go up to the supermarket for more soft drinks! 
Turns out people eat and drink A LOT.
What wasn't so perfect was the gap between our expectations of the afternoon and our parents'. I thought we'd got their buy in that DH and I were to be freed up to chat with friends and enjoy the party, with GPs swooping in to take care of S&R for us. None of them seemed to get the memo on that because S&R kept crying and every time they did, someone would deliver them back to us for taking care of, and frankly looking a bit grumpy about having to do that. AIBU to think that they should have done more to let us have some time off (particularly me) and that it's OK for a mum not to be 100% responsible for looking after her children at her birthday party? I don't know, maybe I was BU and should have prioritised GPs enjoying it too and S&R being with us?
Quite apart from that, I have now concluded that my MIL is hugely selfish. I got back from the hairdresser's on Saturday morning (in itself a quick scamper up there to get my hair put up rather than having it in a ramshackle pony tail as per every other day of the week so not exactly lounging around) and found DH and my parents hard at work in the garden while she sat indoors watching the golf. At every opportunity she ignored things in the same room that blatantly needed to be done (washing up, picking up a child, moving furniture, clearing the table, etc etc etc) in the interests of not lifting a finger. The only time she volunteered to do anything was making tea for people, which she wanted herself anyway. I found it pretty hard to tolerate, to be honest - she only ever wants to do the things that are easy, enjoyable, make her look good. Although she often offers to look after S&R for us I now know I could never let her because goodness knows what I'd come back to. She certainly wouldn't even think to change any nappies, feed them or watch out for dangers. She seriously can't even be asked to put a ready meal into a pre-heated oven - we have done so once and she couldn't do it without further coaching over the phone ("er, put the food into the part of the oven that's hot??" How do you make that task any simpler?)
Anyway, back to more positive things, had a lovely weekend and got some really lovely presents, and so far being 40 hasn't been too bad. It certainly helps that the weather is so fab down here and that the Olympics are coming - so exciting! I just can't bear the negativity spouted by people about them - would they really rather this country never got stuff like this that might actually make us look and feel good?