ooops!

This isn't a rehearsal, this is it!

Picture the scene, most of the family in our kitchen, Alfie is lying - asleep - on the floor as far out of the way as he can get. Samuel is sitting on Hazels chair and half watching the TV. Wendy is sitting on the swivel chair and chatting idly with Hazel who is standing at the worktop end. I am on one of the ordinary kitchen chairs as is Lulu. It's very quiet as Corey is eating a small fromage-frais in his high chair.

Suddenly, there is a cry, Corey has decided to stick his pudding in his eye! Tears and minor screaming. I am closest so I attempt to clean him up. Lulu comes across to help me. We clean his face up but he is still rubbing his eye with a very puddeny hand. "Can someone get me a damp cloth please?" says Lulu. As I move in the direction of the sink, Hazel, who has moved up closer to see if she can help turns around to go back to the sink and stands on poor Alfie who is still minding his own business and hasn't moved. He squeals and panics. Hazel goes down with the biggest thump imaginable onto the wooden floor. Alfie runs under the table and hides in case we decide it's his fault. Hazel groans and tries to sit up. I reach her and ask if she is OK "No", she says, "I've hurt my wrist". Wendy and I both came to the same conclusion, broken!

This broke up the party somewhat and I took Hazel to A&E. "Sorry, it's a four hour wait here, try the Cumberland Centre". We go to the Cumberland Centre and she is seen immediately as by now her wrist has a very ominous lump on it. X-ray, plaster and letter to take into A&E on Monday morning as early as possible after 09.30. Hazel had a fairly comfortable night and we got to A&E about 09.45. Here, she was also seen immediately and moved into a treatment bay. She had her wrist positioned and re-plastered over the next hour or so and then had to go into recovery for over an hour. By the time we got home it was past 14.00 and we were starving. Today and tomorrow we are at work and then, on Thursday, we start all over again with the fracture clinic who will check progress and decide whether we can still go on holiday or whether Hazel needs a plate in her wrist.

Corey stopped screaming almost immediately in order to see what had happened to Nanny Hazel.

Alfie was not told off, he didn't do anything wrong.

Hazel and I have still not watched the first episode of the latest series of Downton Abbey.