Skip to main content

Holiday!

After what seems like a long time coming we have a week away - hooray! This couldn’t have come quickly enough. Abi’s last few days at Thorngrove have been overshadowed by the whole Freda thing, and I had got to the point where I just wanted term to end with no more incidents. As it turned out this was too much to ask for. On Monday, despite assurances that Freda would be chaperoned while in school she took it upon herself to wipe bird mess on Abi’s jumper at morning break before storming off shouting about how mean Abi is to her. Abi had concluded that it was pointless saying anything - after all, everything she had said hadn’t in her eyes resulted in any improvement - so waited until she got home to tell me. I got a call from her while on the train when she broke down in tears again. Poor thing, as she said, she just wanted her last few days at school not to be ruined.

This  time I kicked up a much bigger fuss and wrote to the Headmaster to complain. Not the first time but definitely more strongly worded. Long story short they asked Freda to stay away until the last day of term when she could come in to say goodbye given she would not be returning in September. All would have been ok had her Mum then not decided to go onto the Year 7 Parents FB group to rant about how the school had failed her and it was her daughter being bullied not the other way round. Not helpful. It took 3 days before one of the other Mums decided to wade in and put the record straight - what a drama to end the term!

So we arrived in Cornwall yesterday and it is stunning. We left at 7am and were in Plymouth by just after 10am. We stopped there and had a walk around with coffees on the Barbican and a browse through a second hand book shop for Izzy and I. I love the fact that Izzy got chatting to the bookseller and told him she loved the smell of books, particularly old ones. She picked out some 1st and 2nd edition Enid Blyton books she hadn’t read before (£30 later!) which of course I bought for her after that comment. We then headed onto Talland Bay and were here in time for a slightly late lunch. Beats the drive to the Dordogne any day! The weather yesterday was up to French standards as well so we were in heaven. We had a fab lunch in the little beach cafe, and then met up with friends who live near Plymouth. After a few hours with them at the beach we dragged the kids away to check in - who could blame them wanting to stay when it is so gorgeous?  The sea is crystal clear, the rock pools plentiful and they spent hours running in and out of the sea. Who needs electronic devices when you have all this to hand?

The house we are in this week is also fab. It's over the 4 floors, has a hot tub, beautiful views and is about 2 minutes from the SW Coastal Path and 5 from the beach. The upside of this is wonderful walks. The downside is I ran it today and it's pretty challenging! So we are settling in for a fantastic week, the weather looks like it will be kind to us, we all love the area and I can feel myself relaxing already. Just what the doctor ordered!


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas...

I was sure I write the blog last week.... but, it seems another 2 weeks have flown by and now we are staring down the barrel of the Christmas holidays and the end of the year! Currently it's all about Doug and what a star he has proved to be so far. He has now been with us for 3 weeks and he is (so far, I keep thinking at some point it will change) a pretty chilled out puppy. As a second dog he has been thrown in at the deep end and has been to Sunday lunch with Alan & Sarah (which he loved), socialised at home with friends and their dogs, met babies (he loved Elsie) and started to go for walks. The walking has been a bit different to our previous approaches with new dogs. In the past we have ventured out carefully, making sure that our new baby only walks a short distance so they can experience all the new sights and sounds. Doug's first walk was after Sunday lunch last week, just him and 8 other dogs for bout 45 mins - he loved it! In our defence we didn't let him wal...
Post a Comment
Read more

Welcome Albert James!

So this week has been full of new things - Jess and Chris have welcomed Albert James Wilkinson Rayner to the family, a tad early but all doing well apparently (and so cute!!), I started my new job, Abi has her new shed and Dad got sorted on a phone that wasn't invented before the kids were born!! I always knew this week was going to be full on and it certainly has been. The first thing I had to do was try and sort out my diary which had been filled from dawn to dusk by my predecessor with meetings. I decided to set out as I mean to go on and immediately took out those that started before 9am. While I can get into  the office for 8am , it's a pain and requires me to be on the 6:30am train which is just a bit much every day (stating the obvious). I then made it clear that we don't need to be joined at the hip for the next 4 weeks which is a sensitive process - even though he is retiring it's hard to let go and he is understandably keen that the team are looked after. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Diary management!

This part of the summer is definitely typified by me trying to remember who is supposed to be where and when. Abi likes to be off doing something with someone while Izzy is happier to know she's close to home and so for the last week they've gone their separate ways. Abi has been down in Somerset making the most of Ben and Laurie being about. From what I can tell she's having a lovely time. Apart from the covert phone call one evening to tell me she was 'starving'  (Mum was cooking for the hordes and so it had been delayed), I've barely heard from her. The few calls I have had have very quickly ended in "can I go now" like I'm making her speak to me! Today she switches from Mum and Dads to a night or two with Kerrie - not sure who is more excited! Izzy didn't want to be away for that long so she opted not to go. She's very conscious that Abi and Laurie are joined at the hip when together and Ben has his own things he wants to do so she ...
Post a Comment
Read more