Oooh, I second that Slazenger cozzie. I had one and it lasted for ages. Reminds me, I haven't done any "proper" swimming for ages.
Beachy - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hope you are having some treats and having a day off taxiing everyone around. And btw, a big well done to your dd2 for gritting her teeth and going on that trip. Sounds as though it turned out a big success.
Ds has had a fabulous but very tiring week doing his Combine Arts Week "putting on a show in 5 days" thing. As I may have mentioned before, I am not a fan of live theatre and very much not a fan of going to watch my offspring in any productions. Well, seeing yesterday's show might have almost cured me of that. The "company" did their first show on Friday night, but ds said he wanted us to go on Saturday, so we went to the matinee yesterday afternoon. My goodness, it was good - really professionally done. My dm, who generally refuses all invites to see anything that her gcs are in, actually agree to come and appeared to enjoy it too (actually did not voice any criticism at all, which is a first, I think). Ds has said that he wants to do CAW every year. 
He is a bit shattered today, though.
MrsS, do you think it is a combination of "Back-to-School" shock after what was a v. long holiday and frustration about not being able to enjoy the sports activities? How is her hand? Did she have an op? My dd would probably have used a hand injury as an excuse not to go anywhere near a school for weeks...
Dd's current BFF's parents are away on holiday and dd stayed there last night (at least I think she did - I dropped her and 2 others at the beach at about 8pm for some kind of gathering and got a text at 2am saying "I'm fine" 
) and has not yet reappeared. I assume she will come back when she has run out of clean pants.
I haven't bought any newspapers for ages, but suddenly decided to treat myself to a helping of old-fashioned newsprint yesterday and got The Times for the first time in a looong time. Blimey, some of those columnists seem to trot out the same old crap, week in/week out - and seem to have been writing variations on the same tired theme for a decade or more. But anyway - there was an article about depression taken from a book written by a psychiatrist who herself suffers from depression. Best thing I've read on MH for a long time. It rang so many bells I could barely hear myself think. Made me feel better too. :) I think I will get the book.