It has been a long time since we have put finger to keyboard and updated this blog. As you might notice a great many entries have been put up in the last few days. The formatting is a bit inflexible and temperamental so forgive the huge gaps between sections and alternating lines of photos.
It has been another busy week (when aren’t they busy ?) with the Royal Wedding at the end of last week, ANZAC Day 2011 at the start of it and school resuming after a three week break and four consecutive weekends away.
It has been another busy week (when aren’t they busy ?) with the Royal Wedding at the end of last week, ANZAC Day 2011 at the start of it and school resuming after a three week break and four consecutive weekends away.
Next week will be the first full week the kids will have had at school in 5 weeks what with school holidays, Easter and Wedding and bank related holidays.
There is so much to catch up on – Sally has scolded me for not keeping this up to date so I will endeavour to strive to aim to do fortnightly updates starting from …soon.
In general everything is going well and we are happy and healthy.
In general everything is going well and we are happy and healthy.
Both kids have done well at school with Aisha in particular topping many of her year 7 classes.
William was elected as his year's Student council reperesantative and Aisha blitzed the high schol kids in her swimming carnival and the headmaster referred to her in the relevant newsletter as 'Aisha Strutt, the human torpedo'. Click on the link below and scroll to the 2nd page with the pool photo. On the first page, next to the picture of the violinist is a picture of a group of made-up boys. Will is on the left of the group as you look at it. .http://www.nlis.org/sites/default/files/documents/News%20DRO%2031st%20March%202011.pdf
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The weather has been the main topic of conversation with what seems to have been endless dry warm clear days. We have had about 6 weeks of consistently good weather, almost unheard of for the time of the year. Our neighbour commented the other day that he no longer wonders each morning what the weather will be he just expects it to be good. since about mid-March that the days have been so good. Today (May 5th) was remarkable in that I looked at the window to be surprised (!) by overcast skies and ...spits of rain !
Sally works long hours but enjoys working in London. She still gets a blast from walking past and through some of the historical landmarks that surround her.
Having been an integral part of the kids school in Canberra, she stepped foot in Aisha's campus for the first time a month ago for a student performance evening that Aisha was a part of. She met for the first time various parents of children Aisha and William have been having play dates with.
Having been an integral part of the kids school in Canberra, she stepped foot in Aisha's campus for the first time a month ago for a student performance evening that Aisha was a part of. She met for the first time various parents of children Aisha and William have been having play dates with.
Just this weekend Mark has had both ovens going, and later both dishwashers going, as he produced a roast leg of lamb with Yorkshire puddings ( as you do). His first attempt at Yorkshire puds in maybe 20 years was declared an outstanding success, which he attributes to use of goose fat (!).
Mark will start looking for casual teaching work in the next couple of weeks. We are staring down the barrel of Sally’s mother and her suitcases full of her excellent homemade jams arriving in a week as well as British summer holidays in just over 10 weeks from now.
Mark will start looking for casual teaching work in the next couple of weeks. We are staring down the barrel of Sally’s mother and her suitcases full of her excellent homemade jams arriving in a week as well as British summer holidays in just over 10 weeks from now.
It’s a really odd system wherein you 'book' the tickets you want - indicating either a specific price or, to increase your chances, a price range you are prepared to pay. Those 'bids' are put in along with credit card details. At some stage in June or July this year they will allocate tickets, maybe all you have asked for, none of them or some of them, deduct the cost without any consultation on whether you wanted to pay the top of the price range or the bottom of the price range,( so you have to make sure there is enough money in your account to cover the FULL cost of all the tickets you have bid for).Then closer to the games ...in 2012 we are told what they have given us. By simply selecting those events that we would like to go to Mark’s list of possibles was running at £6,000 at one stage. We whittled it down to a somewhat more reasonable level but have no idea what, if anything, we’ll get nor how much we’ll end up paying
Anyway, hopefully we get something – just heard the opening ceremony is oversubscribed by 10 times so I doubt we’ll have any luck with that. Perhaps we’ll get the badminton on a Wednesday morning….!
Yay!Great to be able to keep in touch with you here. Hope all is well
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So glad to know what you're up to! So when does the posting end? I'm thinking about my post-phd/50th trip coming up during 2012...Regards to all of you!
ReplyDeleteWOW! You have done so much since you left. So good to hear that the kids are loving it and you all look like you are having a great time and really making the most of it. We are freezing.
ReplyDeleteAbout to do the rounds of open days of high schools for Cameron.
We will be following your blog!