Quick update
Sorry I am not posting much at present. Here's a quick update:
1) The best news. Everything is quiet and apparently happy on the school front. Gwilym and Catrin both seem happy and relaxed and they seem to be making progress. He (and I!) didn't do terribly well with some of his grammar homework, apparently, but then I haven't yet covered in my grammar classes what he is doing in his! (It's fun this, isn't it!) Catrin is going great guns at present. Gwilym is hoping he can go up to the college in September, though he knows now that this does not always happen, and to be honest - another year of taking them both to the same school at the same time would be quite nice!)
2) Us. Pat is doing fine. Alan is doing fine, though he is tired. The lecturers are tired. Everybody is tired except the people who have dropped out! Still, one more week and then we have a fortnight's holidays, which are earmarked for certain admin tasks which remain to be done.
3) Bordeaux suddenly discovered spring! One week we were scraping ice off the car. The next week the heating was turned off, we were eating outside and casting clouts left, right and centre. Apparently one day soon it will become unbearably hot.
4) Tomorrow the kids are at scouts (I'll believe it when I see it - they have been ONCE this year) and we are going to the Salon de l'Immobilier - a show where estate agents, loan sharks and house builders display. I want to talk to Bouygues Immobilier, who are building in Floirac. Their houses seem pretty reasonably priced by Bordeaux standards, they are the first wave of an urban regeneration programme which is due to completely renew Floirac, they'll be built by spring 2008 and they seem to be going to have flat roofs.... Anyway, there's a house with three bedrooms and a small office, which seems a possible goer, so I'd like to talk to them.
1) The best news. Everything is quiet and apparently happy on the school front. Gwilym and Catrin both seem happy and relaxed and they seem to be making progress. He (and I!) didn't do terribly well with some of his grammar homework, apparently, but then I haven't yet covered in my grammar classes what he is doing in his! (It's fun this, isn't it!) Catrin is going great guns at present. Gwilym is hoping he can go up to the college in September, though he knows now that this does not always happen, and to be honest - another year of taking them both to the same school at the same time would be quite nice!)
2) Us. Pat is doing fine. Alan is doing fine, though he is tired. The lecturers are tired. Everybody is tired except the people who have dropped out! Still, one more week and then we have a fortnight's holidays, which are earmarked for certain admin tasks which remain to be done.
3) Bordeaux suddenly discovered spring! One week we were scraping ice off the car. The next week the heating was turned off, we were eating outside and casting clouts left, right and centre. Apparently one day soon it will become unbearably hot.
4) Tomorrow the kids are at scouts (I'll believe it when I see it - they have been ONCE this year) and we are going to the Salon de l'Immobilier - a show where estate agents, loan sharks and house builders display. I want to talk to Bouygues Immobilier, who are building in Floirac. Their houses seem pretty reasonably priced by Bordeaux standards, they are the first wave of an urban regeneration programme which is due to completely renew Floirac, they'll be built by spring 2008 and they seem to be going to have flat roofs.... Anyway, there's a house with three bedrooms and a small office, which seems a possible goer, so I'd like to talk to them.
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