I am packed. The car is packed. I have directions and maltesers for the journey, sitting on the table. Rosie's train appears to be on time ( Read more... )

I think I have finally, just this minute, completed all the organisey stuff I have to do for the CBB Gather this weekend!

Now I need to pack for myself... shouldn't be a difficult task for only two days, should it? Maybe I should make a list first! And drink some hot chocolate while I make the list... :-)

I can't be poorly, it really isn't allowed this week. So I am ignoring the fact that I have been so tired I wanted to cry for the last two days, that when I went to bed last night my neck and shoulders were aching, that this morning I feel less tired but still have stiff-ish shoulders, and that I am now trying to decide whether I feel sick or if it ( Read more... )

We are seeing the school nurse about L2 at 9.30, and then nipping next door to King's Grove school with L1 at 10am. We looked round Ruskin yesterday, and the Assistant Headteacher, who is also the person responsible for the Year 6/7 Transition, couldn't have been more friendly and welcoming. I still really really like it, having seen it on a normal ( Read more... )

I really enjoyed yesterday at Catriona's gather in Doncaster. I confess was a little scared of the journey when I looked at the directions and realised just how far away it is and that it involved three motorways (if you count the A1(M) ) that I am not familiar with at all - and yes, I know quite well that a motorway is a motorway, but I've sort of ( Read more... )

I am up far too early for a Saturday, but it is for a very good reason - I'm setting off in less than half an hour to pick up nicolap and then we are going to negotiate the route to Doncaster in the pouring rain! If we arrive without making any mistakes, given I have never driven that way before in my life and it involves going through the middle of ( Read more... )

I was so pleased to be there. And so very pleased to be able to take my parents there too; if I hadn't been able to go, they would have made it there anyway on the bus, but it would have meant setting off early, a long journey both ways and the necessity of a taxi from the bus station to the cemetery and back again. In the car we did it in 45 ( Read more... )