Last Monday Lily had her first lesson in Baton twirling and seemed to enjoy it, today is a holiday so no lesson again until next week for her. I had my first proper gardening class on Thursday and learnt all about plant biology, had a delicious lunch (laid on by previous novice gardeners) and then learnt some more and came away with another test to complete for this coming week. I did very well in my first test, but apparently we weren't meant to google our answers. Oops! I scored 88 but we sit the test again at the end of the course to see how much we have improved/learnt, so there may not be much improvement by me. I reckon I answered more than half of the questions without help though, so that was pleasing.
It was Kate's birthday on Friday and Ray had asked me to organise a surprise party for her on Friday night so that was fun. We were all hiding in their kitchen with our cars parked around the corner when they got back from shopping and then the kids blew the surprise just as we could hear Kate saying to Ray that she thought there was someone in the house! We had a great evening and got home around 10pm to put the kids to bed.
On Saturday we had a fairly relaxed day and then went round to Olivier & Amelie's for dinner and a wine tasting. So it was another late night for the children and again they went to bed around 10pm. Then we had another relaxed day on Sunday. Tom, Lily and I went round to Dorothy's for a visit and a catch up with all their news before coming home in time for me to watch the Golden Globe Awards Show. One of two must see tv events for me, the other one is of course the Oscars. Speaking of Oscars, I need to say a big congrats to Euan and Emily on the birth of Oscar (Thursday 14th Jan). Well done both, look forward to meeting him on our return to the UK which is only 5 months away now!
And today is a holiday, the sun is shining and we have just met some new friends (always within 6 months of leaving everything falls into place and life is great!). They have lived on our street for the last 8 years and have a boy called Ken who is 9 so Tom has gone off to play with him for an hour or so and Lisa & I have swapped phone numbers. We were both bemoaning the fact that its so difficult to meet people and to know if there are children in the house because no-one plays out front.
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