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Beautiful smiley Elsie
 This week has been a great illustration of why we wanted to move back to Somerset. Of course it's still the summer holidays (will they ever end?) and so part of the challenge is finding things for the kids to do., Long gone are days of putting them into kids camp and breathing a sigh of relief that they are someone else's responsibility all day!

Luckily they are pretty good at amusing themselves. Abi spends a good few hours every day at the stables - yesterday going up about 2:30pm and getting picked up 5+ hours later, and Izzy s just good at whiling away the hours in her own way, writing lists of things she might someday do or making something - rings, bracelets, cookies or the like. 

Pause.... its been 3 weeks since I wrote that - back into the time warp again - how do the days and weeks pass so quickly? Having written 3 weeks ago that the kids were doing well at passing the summer holiday time, they are back to school tomorrow! I'd say there are some mixed feelings. Izzy is as keen as ever to get back - she misses having the company and wants to see her friends. She's also looking forward to starting senior school (again of course as she had to 'go back' on joining TS). Abi is fine about school, but just doesn't want it to cut into her time with Nula. She has said though that as long as she has her horse she knows she needs to work so hopefully it will balance. 

It's unbelievable to think that Ben's has done his GCSEs (good results - he did a fab job), Laurie sits his this coming year (mild panic on the side of Amanda and Alex) and Abi starts her run up to GCSEs this year as well. How did our babies get so grown up? Ben is off to London on his own to film various people for his website (paid!) - he is so independent.  

Along with the kids back to school comes the launch of our Hybrid working policy which means I'm now planning on being in London twice a week as a norm. Today was one of those days and a 5am start. I could get up later, but the day just doesn't feel the same if I don't get to walk the dogs. I'm not sure how they felt as 5am now is very definitely like the middle of the night - it was pitch black and very foggy... I didn't have a clue where they were! Actually they were very good - despite running around the fields they managed to make it to every gate at the same time as me so they were obviously paying some attention. I think we were up before most of the wildlife - only the owls keeping us company this morning. The trip in was all to time and faultless, but the train home (later than normal) is running late and its nearly 8pm already. Not to worry, have had Abi texting me all the way so I'm quite happy.

I would stop now and do another blog for this week as we have been home alone with Glenn in France all week. I know if I do that I'll never manage to find the time to come back to it so instead I'll summarise briefly here. We had a great week with the kids being brilliant though out. They cooked cleaned, kept themselves occupied as I worked - I couldn't have asked for better. Glenn had a good week cycling (I think - he arrived home at 11:30pm last night and I was up at 5am so haven't really had the chance to ask in detail). Looking forward to us all being together when I get home tonight...


Growing!

 




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