Well, it has been a busy afternoon! The Olympic Torch relay was a very convivial affair; DD2 was delighted with her free bottle of Coke Zero, and the fact that she got to high-five a policeman on a motorbike. We saw the torch twice, actually; after it went past we legged it across the town centre and caught up with it again as it emerged from the one-way system.
Then off to collect DD1 at the end of her school trip, and I could hear the collective sobbing as I approached the school hall. All very emotional. She had a fantastic time, though.
DS returned unscathed from Germany; the first thing he said when he got in the car was "xx weed in a bottle and threw it out of the hotel room window". Yes, that was the very first nugget of information he thought to impart, after we shelled out £400+ for him to spend five days in Germany. 
On a more positive note, they had a deodorant fight in the corridor one evening, so all those cans of Lynx came in handy after all. 
I am nursing a cold today, which crept up overnight, but am feeling distinctly more chipper after two of DH's fabled Hot Whiskies.