Eggstremely Challenging

Very slow start to the day. Managed to get to Gatwick early enough for some light shopping (including an indulgent browse through the books in WHSmiths). Bumpy flight, pouring rain, picked up the kids from Mr B's parents and then home.

Main job this evening was boiling some eggs. I quite like boiled eggs, but these ones have a special job to do. Conor is allergic to various foods, and doesn't like the testing they always want to do on him. Of all the tests, the least invasive, and most definitive, is the food challenge. Ray Mears survival style, he will be given increasingly larger amounts of the food while nurses stand by with antihistamines and epipens... Tomorrow is the whole egg challenge, so I have to take in a boiled egg for him to nibble.

Conor is slightly resistant to the whole thing. I can see his point of view: all he's ever heard is "no you can't eat that, it might hurt you", and now I'm encouraging him to eat it. So, I have a big bag of Smarties for bribery purposes and Conor's on a promise that I'll make him any kind of ice cream he wants (chocolate ice cream with smarties and lumps of chocolate in served with chocolate wafers and chocolate sauce seems to be the choice).

This continues on from the egg themed backblip from yesterday. Tomorrow might have an eggy theme too.