Julie Jay: Caught on the hop when we got sick once again at this time of year

Despite both being on antibiotics, I am still chasing my children around shops, because even when fuelled by penicillin, they have yet to meet an automatic door they haven't wanted to run through

Despite seeming to always be unwell around the new year for as long as I can remember, I was still caught on the hop, with just the tail end of one Calpol bottle left when the epidemic made itself known. Picture: iStock 

The five-year-old is sick, the two-year-old is sick, and their mother (ie, yours truly) is definitely sick.

To be fair, we were all bound to get some kind of scurvy after a December of eating our weight in Quality Street and Tayto crisps, so this bout of illness shouldn’t have taken me by surprise.