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I dropped some butter into Rich's shoe - but shhhh!  Don't tell him!

Reflecting on Sam's musical abilities - I made a short video over

<---there.  I feel duty bound to warn you that the following footage contains recorder AND violin 'playing'.

Click on it to biggify and also to switch to high quality.

Well, since Sam went to stay at Grandma and Grandad's house and Grandma bought Sam some "Beast Quest" books, he has been completely addicted to them and SOOOOOO inpatient about the new series coming out this autumn.  Imagine our surprise when Amazon appeared to have delivered them 2 weeks before their due publication date!!!  Or prehaps they just came out early?

Anyways, Sam is one very happy boy.  After school, he was playing on the field with his friends and we heard several boys exclaiming "Beast Quest Club Meeting!  In the woods!"  Of course, young Sam has started up a club at school, to rap about 'BQ' and generally enthuse. Haha. If you're about 7 years old - you simply NEED to read them!  Go now!

Oh - elsewhere in March House - Rich has been learning to play the drums (and teach Sam), so it's been a few days of bom chik a bom chik here.  (video will appear here soon!)  So far it is not at all annoying, just nice to have music in the house.  I can't wait till Sam gets a violin and starts joining in!

Oh - as well - the final stage of our Europe trip is <--there (ish)

Wow!  Can you believe it's now a five minute round trip to drop Sam off at school?  I can't!  Now he has gone up into the 'main school' - it's all very different - LOT more independence and responsibility.  Plus, now he does prep some days, which means no homework when he gets home -just mummy and daddy playtime - which is cool!

The weather has decided to cheer up a bit too, which is fab!  I've pootled out to the garden and repositioned some dahlias.

You might notice, I've 'revamped' the blog, in the spirit of autumnal change.  If you don't like it, don't worry, I may well change it again soon :)  Has anyone reading this been to any 'not-so-busy' Greek islands?

It's back to school for Sam!  He had a great first day and is thoroughly enjoying being in 'main school' now.  The house has been eerily quiet during the day.  My agenda changes a bit now, to work, painting things orange and chopping down big plants.  Like most British people, I guess, we've starting thinking about our next holiday... Egypt?  Cyprus?  Mexico?  Or perhaps our carbon footprint means that we should stay in Britain in the rain?  On the radio today they were asking for the definition of 'summer in Britain' and one answer was the three days of sun at the end of Spring. 

Getting very dispondant about the garden too - I can see some great looking flowers from the living room, but getting out there across the drenched metre high grass to smell them is a bit tricky really.  Still, at least we got some lovely sunshine last weekend in Paris.  We would really love to live in France - do they do a census there? Hmmm. 

• Menton to Strasborg (via Aosta and Liechtenstein)is just over there <--- (ish) featuring the san bernardino pass and Rich swimming at the top of Alps!

We've just come back from a great long weekend in Paris!  Somewhere I have never been before, but surely will go back to!  We saw LOADS - including the Pere Lachaise cemetary, where Jim Morrison is, the Catacombs, the City Museum, the Grand Arche, Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame and more!  all this AND the Fete de Ganesh was on in our street!  The weather was fantastic too

We're very pooped now, so I'm hoping that Sam will kind of chill out a bit, while I start sewing in the billion labels on his schooliform.

Do checkout the rest of our Grand Trip de Europe videos at my you tube channel and up there too.