I have found out several things in the last few weeks - to always double check a home Covid test, that Track and Trace is an absolute pain, and most importantly, even if you are double jabbed don’t think you won’t get ill with coronavirus.

It all started with a message from my son’s school. Someone in his class had tested positive for Covid and his ‘bubble’ had burst. He and all his year group had to stay at home for 10 days.

We discovered through the Facebook grapevine who the child was and it wasn’t one of my son’s close friends, so at this point we weren’t too worried. My husband and I had both had our second vaccine in May, so even if we got it we’d be ok, or so I thought. I was more worried about what my son would be missing out on at school.

We, like many other families in his year group, did home tests after hearing the news. We were all negative.

But a few days later I started to feel unwell. At first it was just a sore throat. I often suffer this when I’m tired or rundown, thanks to recurring tonsillitis as a child, so at first I didn’t connect it with Covid. But as I began to feel worse I did a home test just to be sure - again it was negative.

The following evening when I felt no better I did another swab test, this time my son volunteered to do one too. They appeared negative and off he went to bed. But it was only much later when I happened to glance at the tests again, I noticed very faint lines in the ‘positive’ sections of our tests.

For those that haven’t experienced a home test, or to use their proper name a Lateral Flow Test, they are similar to a pregnancy test. You swab your throat and nose and the results appear in 30 minutes - one line for negative, two for positive. You could barely see our second lines, but after taking a closer look, they were definitely there. Thank goodness I had forgotten to throw them away.