The final gathering of the clans. I was knackered and not looking forward to the long drive back home. Imagine my delight when I managed to drive over a stone on a grass verge and give us a puncture. So we had to cut lunch short, drive round Cheltenham's one way system a few times, find kwikfit and spend lots of money on a new tyre before we could head home.

Luckily Big Al is a steady eddie driver and drove us three hours solid before we let the poor kids out of the car.

Luckily I am a patient woman and didn't mind spending three hours turned round to face the kids, going through past papers for Monday's biology test, despite my splitting headache