I am very excited.
Following the success of our trip to Newcastle, we are planning two nights in London, hopefully staying in an apartment hotel somewhere central. We’ll do fun stuff with the boys during the day and take turns to go out in the evenings. Mr. BK is planning a night out with some of his pals. But I’m plotting to go to a Prom, which is something I haven’t done for over twenty years. Wheeeeee!
T is up to his old tricks. It’s 11pm, he’s been officially “in bed” for four hours now but he’s nowhere near asleep.
And he’s back in furniture removal mode. Well, there isn’t actually any furniture in his room except for a mattress, but I’ve just been up there to check on him and found it on the other side of the (fairly large) room.
Never mind; hopefully we will soon have his new bed installed and fixed to the floor (made by these folks). That’ll settle his hash.
Wish he’d go to sleep a bit earlier though, he’ll be impossible to wake in the morning.
The past six weeks have been a bit busy, to say the least. Things have calmed down a bit, so I guess it’s time to get back into the blog. Here are some of the things that have been keeping me occupied.
-Work, work, work, work, work. I won’t go into detail (this blog is about my real life after all…..) but the past few weeks have been consumed with the preparatory phase of a Seriously Big Project. We get a little break for a few weeks, so it’s back to just doing the day job for a while.
- My choir had it’s summer buffet concert.
- I knitted my first Baby Surprise Jacket. Does anyone know any surprise babies needing one?
- My beloved (but admittedly rather knackered) old wooden Adler treble recorder finally gave up the ghost. It split in four places. 
So I have finally succumbed to the world of recorder consumerism and am now the happy owner of a Moeck Rottenburg in Palisander from the rather wonderful Early Music Shop and a Moeck Tuju in maplewood bagged on Ebay. I’m playing them in now.
And I had two holidays at half term!
-For the bank holiday weekend, T and I went on a specialist weekend for autistic families organised by Through the Roof. It was just so relaxing, and fun. T was looked after for much of the weekend by the incomparable Vicky and had an absolute ball. I mostly sat around drinking tea and nattering. Which was just what I needed, given that the deadline for all that work I’d been doing was lunchtime on the day that the holiday started.
-We got back home on the Monday evening and on Tuesday morning, all four of us set off for the wilds of Ardnamurchan for what turned out to be the first successful family holiday we’ve had for four years. Define success? Well everyone enjoyed it and we didn’t come back thinking that it would have been easier to not bother taking T away from home. Nice weather, too.
And Mr. BK went to Poland and brought me back a picture of JPII as a present! And S did his Year9 SATs. And he had his 14th birthday. And I had to go to a beancounters conference that night so missed it. And T had his annual statement review – all presented on the smartboard with the lad doing cute and clever things like buying bananas in Sainsburys or parallel playing with a classmate. 