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“I loved bugs and science and making nature crafts,” she recalled.

Hannon says the retirement bug hit her oldest brother when he looked around one day and suddenly saw that he was the oldest man in the room.

Cases of flu and norovirus - the winter vomiting bug - typically rise at this time of year, and Covid is still around too.

Little does she know that going to Ghana means a freakishly long plane ride to a place with bugs as big as our faces.

“The children are not feeling well,” she said, trying not to look, for the thought of bugs in the flour threatened to put her off her own breakfast.