IT'S a good news week this week, so in your face people who say newspapers only print bad news.

First of all, let's rejoice because NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is up for three awards, including one for its work to downgrade paediatric and maternity services at the Friarage. An award for closing a ward, sort of.

The CCG has been nominated in the Speak to the Consultation Hand Because the Face Ain't Listening to No Public Opinion category, or something like that – I might have misheard.

The Health Service Journal Awards 2014 were set up to "recognise the projects and initiatives that deliver healthcare excellence and innovation".

Not enough pregnant woman and terrified partners ever had the opportunity to drive up the A1 or A66 at high speed to ensure their child wasn't born at Barton lorry park, so the changes are very innovative.

Finding a way to maintain consultant-led services at the Friarage – what an opposite of excellent and innovative idea that would have been.

One of the other awards the CCG is shortlisted for is its work to improve partnerships with local authorities, presumably including North Yorkshire County Council and Richmondshire District Council, which both fought the CCG's plans to downgrade the Friarage every step of the way. How bad where the partnerships before?

Anyway, the house slug which lived under a cupboard has been captured – hooray.

Every night he would come out to eat the cat's leftover food, leave a slimy, shiny trail and then crawl back under the cupboard. One morning when I was up early, I spotted his tail just slithering into the darkness. Quick as a flash I grabbed him and threw him outside.

For a moment I was delighted, until I realised that slug slime is near impossible to wash off.

I appreciate I exaggerate more than anyone else in the world but I was scrubbing my hands for a good half hour before I gave up and went to make the kids' breakfast.

Finally, we took the kids to London at the weekend. London Zoo, Legoland, Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and – the boys' favourite sight – an overweight security guard chasing a shoplifter in the Blackfriars Tesco Express.