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And... stop!

So that's it - the work year has finished, as has the school year,and we are officially all on holiday.... poor Glenn, we'll be in his space for 3 whole weeks!!

This week was supposed to be an easy glide path for me but it was nothing like that, I ended up working right up to the wire - something that is to be expected I guess given the circumstances. I did carve out one day to catch up with a few people but even this was a whirlwind of activity, with meetings in Reading in the morning, followed  by London at lunchtime with the plan of being back in Newbury by 4:30 to meet Glenn and the kids for dentist appointments and then on to a quick pizza and the senior school carol concert.  All was going well until there was a fatality on the line and so all trains were halted and I got home 2 hours later than planned. Oh well, kids were pleased not to have to go to the church and sing, and given half the girls then immediately went down with a sickness bug we may have dodged a  bullet there.

Friday dawned and I was back in London while Izzy  went to school and Abi had special dispensation to stay back so she could go straight to Angie's. School was only scheduled for half a day and I couldn't see the point really when the best of the weather was on Friday and they certainly weren't going to do any lessons! 

The whole riding thing is a tricky one. Abi loves being there, but only really when at least one of her friends is also there. There are a gang of them that have become close and so it's not the same if they're not together. They also seem to do far less riding than they do stable slave and so I've lost the plot on whether we pay or not now, not least I'm pretty sure we paid a small fortune for a monthly riding weekend and, between the weather and the weekends she's ended up working rather than riding, I'm pretty sure we've not had our money's worth. Add to that the fact that Abi tends to come home full of talk about leaving school at 16 to do an apprenticeship there (fuelled  by Angie I'm sure, she goes through stable apprentices more quickly than we do cars), I'd be happy of we could find a happy alternative. In the meantime I keep repeating the mantra "I must not worry about things that are 3+ years in the future and may never happen!"

So this week we are off to Somerset and a few days away in a cottage by the railway. I'm looking forward to walking on the beach, seeing family and generally relaxing. We are taking Bertie (first time ever!) who has picked up a timely tummy bug so I'm paranoid he's going to disgrace himself  - nothing is ever easy!!!



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