The Christmas Illness....

Isobel was talking to her Scottish Granny on the telephone. She was trying to tell her that Alisdair was sick with tonsillitis but she got a bit mixed up.

It came out like this -- "Alisdair has TINSEL-litis."

I had to smile... after she had hung up the phone I wondered what the symptoms of "TINSEL-litis" would be. Perhaps a sufferer would have little pieces of silver tinsel sticking out of their mouth? And, I imagine that people would only catch TINSEL-litis around the Christmas holiday season.

Thankfully the boy is much better now - still taking his medication but he's definitely on the mend. And as Martha Stewart would say ... "That's a good thing!"