Stamps and coffee
Maggie had a better day yesterday: she spoke to some people who were nice (of course!), got her laptop working, was set up with catch-up Mandarin sessions so she won’t…
Month: August 2017
First day of school mumming
This morning I went to a ‘new arrivals’ coffee morning at the school – juniors, am doing it all again for seniors tomorrow. Deep breath, chin up, straight back, and…
Test for facebook
Does this work? What if I add a photo? What about now, is the link better or worse?
Sightseeing – first weekend
Still all feeling a bit like we’d been hit by a sledgehammer, and slightly concerned that none of the ATMs are allowing us to withdraw cash*, we went out early…
House hunting, sight seeing
Dragged our *slightly*-less-jetlagged selves out of bed this morning in order to be picked up at 930 for house hunting. Viewed three or four houses in various states of repair,…
July 19th – China minus 2.5 weeks
Last week of school. A truckload of stuff has gone off into storage (‘we will not see this sofa for 3 years!’ wailed Tamsin). We are keeping the village freecycle…
June
I’ve remembered why I blogged from Japan. Yes, it’s nice to record what we do, both for ourselves and to save writing the same emails over and over to family…