Foreign Perspectives

As the school year ends, there are an increasing number of events that I’ve ended up taking part in which makes me look towards this time next year with some trepidation as we’ll have added another school into the mix by then.

Over the past week or so there’s been the trip to the new school with the class, then the evening session at the school that was mainly for the parents. The daytime trip ended up giving James something of a headache which kept him at home a couple of days thus eating up a little more of the week. Tuesday was the usual blur of activity. Then I was off to Streamvale Farm with John. That’s a place that we’ve been meaning to take the kids to for ages but, frankly, I’m glad that we didn’t waste the money on it as it’s very, very poor value and dangerous to boot, of which more anon. Finally, Friday saw the final trip to the physiotherapist for Mum through to the school BBQ.

Saturday isn’t much better, as usual, as we’ve Kumon in the morning followed by the football coaching in the afternoon with just an hour between them both. Having said that, it does seem more relaxed in that we go to the places and wait for the kids rather than doing the home and back trip each time as we always end up doing during the week.