It’s been a funny week this week, hence my lack of posting. After last week I was looking forward to getting back to normal this week - Mmmmmmmm famous last words.

3.10pm Tuesday afternoon saw Becky arriving home from school looking very pale and peaky indeed. Closer examinations found her glands were up, her temperature was up and she looked and felt dreadful.

I have since learned that apparently whilst they were away last week the girls were waking up at about 5 in the morning, now considering they were having extremely active days and they weren’t going to bed until passed 10pm this made for some very tired little people.

Last weekend should have been a time for calming down and battery charging but Becky for one was still on a high from it all.

I think Tuesdays malady was the end result of all this, her little body was saying if you wont take it easy and give me some down time I’ll just take it and make you have it.

So I’ve had Becky off school and at home since Wednesday. Becky is such a drama queen when she’s poorly and there was no doubt about it, she was poorly this time (oh yes, it’s not unknown for her to try to pull the wool over my eyes and fake a tummy ache or feeling sick to get the odd day off school, what she‘s yet to learn is that Mums always know) but when she really is a bit under the weather she likes to milk it for all it’s worth.

And why not too - they’ll be plenty of times when she’s older when she’ll be feeling awful but just have to ‘get on with it‘, that’s one of the special things about being little, when you’re not well everyone stops what they’re doing and makes a great fuss of you.

So I’ve had the distraction of Becky laid up on the sofa for 3 days plus yesterday I was browsing a Stationery Top Sites List and clicked to go to what was a very innocent looking Stationery website and the next thing I knew my Norton AntiVirus was going crazy and flashing messages at me and I‘d got a virus.

I wish I could remember the name of the website I was on and the URL firstly so I would know to never go there again myself and also so I could warn you about it but unfortunately in my panic I shut the site down without making a note of it and then proceeded to spent the next 6 hours getting rid of the damn virus it had infected me with.

So if you frequent Stationery websites be careful, there is a Stationery website out there somewhere carrying a nasty virus; so you need to make sure your AntiVirus programs are up-to-date.

I had spent ages in the week drawing some Easter Line Art for my members area, lots of intricate decorations on various sized Easter Eggs and saved them all ready for uploading today.

I restored my computer back a couple of days just to make absolutely sure I had completely got rid of the virus. Today when I come to find my eggs they’ve gone

I’m sure a restore is NOT supposed to do that, it gets rid of any programs you’ve installed and restores any settings back to what they were but I thought that any saved files stayed, I know for sure that was the way it worked on my old computer, but my eggs were gone, I wasn‘t very happy about that. Oh well I guess I’ll just have to get on and draw them all again.

And I think that’s brought you up to date, I can’t think of any more news at the moment

Members updates today are:

6 new Stationeries which you’ll find under the new ‘Candle Light’ category

4 new Flippity Pixel Tubes and

A new PSP Tutorial for making Tubes.