DM Edith and Agnes's Busy Day

It was a chilly winter's day. Margo, Edith and Agnes were all busy around the house doing their chores. As Margo was tidying up the kitchen, she sneezed very loudly. ''Acthoo! Oh no'' Margo groaned ''I hope I'm not getting a cold''.

Gru came running in to see what the matter was. ''Are you alright Margo?'' he asked. Margo blew her nose. ''I think I've got a cold coming on'' she mumbled. ''Well'' Gru said ''we'll see how you go''. He had noticed that Margo's nose was well and truly as red as blood.

Later on, as Margo sat down to blow her nose again. Edith asked ''Have you taken your temperature?''. ''Well no'' Margo admitted. Edith quickly ran to fetch the digital thermometer. Margo held it under her tongue. ''It's ever so high'' Agnes said, glancing at the results.

She and Edith then persuaded Margo to take it easy and lie down, and that they would do her chores for her. Margo supposed she couldn't argue with her sisters about that. Edith picked up the list of Margo's chores. ''What do we do first?'' Agnes pipped up. ''Put the washing on?'' Edith instructed.

They carried the big laundry basket downstairs to the lab. That was where Gru kept the washing machine. ''Er how do we put in the clothes?'' Agnes asked ''isn't there something we should separate?''. ''I don't know'' Edith said ''Why don't we just put it in as it is?''.

Agnes still wasn't sure that was the right way to do it, so she made the clothes into two separate piles. Then she and Edith set the washing machine for the first lot of clothes.

Next Edith suggested that they gave Margo some ginger ale. She usually drank that whenever she felt sick, so Edith had thought maybe it would work for Margo. Agnes took the drink to where Margo was sitting quietly watching the flat screen.

''Here'' Agnes said ''try this, it helped Edith when she sick before so maybe it will help you as well''. ''Danks'' Margo said, in a funny voice that she didn't recognize as her own. Then Edith polished like mad until her arms really ached.

Meanwhile Agnes hoovered for dear life until she began to pant heavily. While she was doing so, Gru and Lucy went to check on Margo. ''No school tomorrow sweetie'' Lucy said gently ''you're not well enough''. ''It's a pity it's not Christmas'' Gru smiled ''Den we could call you Margo the red nosed girl''.

Margo couldn't help chuckling at the funny joke. Still she would be glad of a rest.