You heard it here first

Spotted at the kids school, JESS, this afternoon was none other than Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, the best all-rounder in the world (yes, I do know about Jacob Oram).  He was being shown round with his children. Needless to say, he wasn't spotted by my wife as he came into her classroom. She just thought it was a big man who rudely didn't take his cap off and whose child had to be told off for rooting through her drawers.  Who knows, perhaps Mrs Flintoff has had enough of being abandoned in Preston every winter as he jets off to sunnier climes? I, for one, wouldn't blame her.

I have been at JESS quite a bit myself in the past week doing drop offs and pick ups. Janet twisted and slipped on some inocuous looking steps as we were leaving a friends party. It looked for all the world as if she had just sprained her ankle. It was only when we went to the hospital the next morning that the x-ray confirmed a nasty break and a maisonneuve fracture of the ankle. She's having an operation in the morning to put a couple of screws in.