Briefly back in old Blighty

Yet another excuse for a late blog (this one better than being eaten by dinosaurs!); Charlie & I have briefly been back to the UK this week for a 6 day round trip. Quite alot of travelling for such a short trip, but it was needed to see the family and it was a marvellous excuse to catch up with some friends too!

We started off with a couple of days in Plymouth, seeing my Mum & brother and lots of other family, staying with my sister (thanks Nick!). Managed to squeeze in a trip down memory lane and spent a morning on the Barbican which was where I lived when I met Leigh... the sun was shining and it really looked lovely. Then we went off to Bristol to see Ros for the night at her new abode. Had a great night catching up with her and trying to keep track of what she's been up to! The next day we moved on to Bath and I had a chance to pop into our house, just to check it was still there - it was and pretty much looked like it did when we last saw it a couple of years ago (with the addition of a traffic bollard in the back garden! - those pesky students!) From Bath we went up to see Ed, Abi & Issy for the night in North London and were again well looked after - thank you! By this time Charlie was very happy to be in a house with a playmate and toys and utterly bewildered as to what was going on! After a morning there we moved on to see Mike, Lou, Ben & Olivia in Uxbridge before finally going on to Heathrow the next day. It's always a danger staying with Mike & Lou the night before catching a plane given our mutual appreciation of wine, however, unlike my husband who only narrowly made his flight, we were there in plenty of time and not too worse for wear - thanks guys!
So a real whirlwind week. Leigh turned into a domestic God juggling the children/work load with ease! (Perhaps I should do it more often!). The children looked well fed and nourished; in fact the only complaint was from Olivia who said that Daddy couldn't quite do her hair bobbles right!