All Back To Normal

I've stopped posting because I've stopped taking photo's, but I've noticed from a few other blogs recently that you don't always need them!

Alex is enjoying his new school - he's back for the weekend tomorrow for the first time in 3 weeks, feels like months! Antonia has settled back into school really well and asks to go everyday, which is really reassuring. She has also started ballet classes 2 nights a week. I've signed her up until Christmas so there is no not going! She has her little leotard and slippers, all in pink! She looks really cute and flings herself around the house with abandon.

I've started conversation with a friend of a friend and it is all in Italian! My head pounds after an hour, as my brain is just not used to all the work!! I was going to join a gym but Antonia and I are back pounding the streets to school everyday, so I've put it on hold for now. My feet and ankles ache enough with going a treadmill too!

I think it is really sad that everything, including friendship, seems to be put on hold here once the summer starts. From the end of June to the beginning of September we hardly saw anyone outside of family. Okay, so we had our fair share of trips too, but I know we saw more of people in the UK in the summer than we do here. We were invited to a friends house at the beach just before school started here. That was really nice, and now we have done it this year, I'm guessing we will be welcome next year too, especially as we had been invited already in July and couldn't make it then. 

One thing I am really getting into now is Facebook. I seem to be finding more and more people on it from the past. Some I contact, some not, but I'm guessing that goes both ways. I like the live chat and have chatted with a few friends and family recently. My nieces and nephews go on. I wouldn't normally call them so it is nice to be in contact this way. However, I think I am all but banned from Alex's site - he is too cool to have mum chatting with him ;))!

Getting ready for school again...

I start blogging again just as school is about to start again!! This week is being spent trying to outfit my son for his new school in the UK. He doesn't have a uniform but he does have a dress code. So, he still needs a blazer, grey trousers, shirts, ties and, of all things at 13, a suit!

Anyone with a boy this age will appreciate that rather than being really easy this is actually a bit of a nightmare! Luckily I found a two piece suit in Coin in navy wool. Now I have to blaze down Oxford Street next Monday looking for a blazer that doesn't resemble a school one but fits a school boy, shirts that aren't school shirts but can be worn with a tie and a pair of shoes that look smart but aren't school shoes. Does any of that make any sense to you?!! If it does please meet me on Oxford Street, London, next Monday around 10.30 a.m.! Thanks!

By comparison buying him a mug, spoon and fork that he liked were easy!! That being the other criteria of course. It has to be acceptable to him as well as the school. Bizzarely the first thing we have had to call a truce over is his socks! He wants little cotton ankle socks, like he wore at his last school, but what he needs are mens formal socks to go with his new snaffle loafers and his lounge suit.....! Fun eh!

Forget Me

I like this - the fact it was shot on a phone and the music is by the video makers dad all appealed! Norway is pretty and it kind of gets it's message across...

Been gone awhile!

It's unrepeatable what I said when I realised that the last time I posted was May!!!
Anyway, June we went over to Winchester to look around Alex's new school, end of June I went over to the UK for a week for his final week of Prep school. Second week of July we went overland to France, to a region near the Pyrenees. So I think I can be excused for not having been on for a while! Then last week my mother-in-law came to visit. Here's some photo's of what we've been up to:

Sorry they aren't chronological but I just wanted to get something on the blog! You can probably guess which are in the UK and which in France I think!