I shall focus on the positive of all this today It was that sort of day
Started off with everyone doing music practise. I shall have to get teachers for them sometime soon i think, but money is tight just at the moment, so i’ll be waiting until the new year i think. [...]

Thought i would mention this site, as we’ve managed to have several good days out from it recently. Very handy little site, more power to its e-elbow.
Wherecanwego.com 

A very slow back to normal day today, with not much of anything but a little of everything. Hardly worth beginning to get back into a routine as the next 4 days and all next week are a bit different to normal anyway, so i didn’t bother. Maddy achieved 2 sums and some reading, Fran [...]

Somebody sort out the NHS. Please. It’s being run by lunatics.
I phoned up for Amelie’s allergy appointment and they couldn’t offer me an appointment until the day after the 13 weeks that we must be seen within. This meant that she couldn’t offer me that appointment, because then she wouldn’t have been seen within the [...]

Saturday we reduced to another paddling trip to Postbridge, before buying bbq stuff and heading back to the campsite ready to babysit M and Iz and Joe and Lou wanted to go to a concert. (To be fair, i think ‘wanted’ states Joe’s stance on the particular band rather too strongly… ) So we [...]

Friday needed to be at a slightly more leisurely pace after all that and as cousin M was better, we decided to meet up with Joe and the girls at Castle Drogo. (LOVE National Trust membership, worth every penny!) Had a somewhat torturous trip up there; it’s a very, VERY narrow lane and quite stepp [...]

Thursday we had a VERY LONG DAY. Had intended to spend it with cousins, but M was sick so had to stay away from her really, given our “don’t want tummy bug in a field” status. Got lunch and ate that under Kestor, then took a walk up to see if anyone had found our [...]