six degrees of separation

J:
So the dreaded day has come.  I’m now back in London and Rebecca and the kids are in St Catharines.  Somehow it seems that we are all at home and away from home at the same time.
“So how was your flight?” – everyone always wants to know.  Well it was a lot better than the [...]

update from Rosie

Rosie:
Hello everyone
It’s Tuesday, and everyone has just finished their breakfast. We’ve been having a great time over the past few days, but we are missing everyone in England as well. On Saturday we went to a pool drama party and everyone had a great time! There was a lovely big pool, and Johnnie and Daisy [...]

7 days make a week

R:
Been here almost one week now – but so much has happened that it feels like a month!  A couple of times already we have been down to the lakeshore which is about 3 or 4 minutes walk from John and Diane’s house.  The first time we went I think was Tuesday mid-afternoon, we a [...]

up and running

Hi there
So we’ve brought you up to speed on our eventual safe arrival in St Catharines on Sunday.  Let’s try to fill you in on the next few days.
On Monday we were up and about by 7 am.  At 4 am I woke up with a TOWERING headache.  Once medicated I was able to get [...]

48 hours in

Bec:
This isn’t really an update, just a special message to everyone.  This is a very strange time, it all feels quite unreal, and I can’t accurately describe how I’m feeling.  It’s as if what is happening is too big for me to think about all at once (my poor little brain).  Often I forget what [...]

our (new) home and native land

Hello everyone – welcome to our blog again – this is our first post since we all arrived in Canada, finally.
It’s been a long hard road getting here, a saga of near epic proportions.  So it is fitting that our journey from London to Toronto was an epic in its own right.
We got up at [...]

leaving on a jet plane

Well it has arrived.  It is 5.20 am on 17th August – I’ve been awake since 1.30.  Our taxi/bus comes at 6 am and we are on our way.
Even now, it STILL doesnn’t feel real.
Notes on today – Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal in Beijing this morning.  I wonder what the headline of [...]

T -34 hours

So here we are – Friday night before we fly on Sunday.  Still going smoothly, not without emotion of course, but hanging in there.
Last night was the last ever group at 67 The Crescent – almost anticlimactic in the end.  This house has been almost an epicentre of things in Croydon for 8 years, and [...]

last weekend

Well it was quite the exhausting weekend just gone.  So much so I was falling asleep at work yesterday!
Friday night Rebecca went out with Amanda and Laura.  It was just like old times – they didn’t get to bed until after 3 am!  And there was the phone incident.  But home safe and sound, just [...]

seven days make one week

And the countdown marches inexorably on…  one week from now at this time we will be a Gatwick airport.
Little dramas – Rebecca lost her mobile phone on Friday night/Saturday morning – unbelievably she got it back unused and unharmed.  It would have been a tricky final week without it.
We had a lovely meal at The [...]