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I’m not sure who this blog is for. Especially since no one knows about it and therefore no one is reading it. If a blog exists and isn’t read does it really exist? If it falls down in a forest does it make a noise?

Good day with Arlo – watched runners, went to park, had patatas bravas in tobacco factory, walked to new house, walked to steam train via South Bank Centre where there was a dancing class he watch and damn near joined in with, saw a fire engine, went on steam train home. All this with the remnants of a cold.

His word count is shooting up and today was a day of doing words. Singing, running, dancing, jumping, marching.

House is exchanged. A weight is lifted. We hope to see it tomorrow and start planning. More lists will ensue and finally finally we will have a house. We’ve been six months between houses, but it will be longer still before we get to move in. And then it will be worth it.

And then we’ll get a camper van as well.

or high water

Disregarding flood warnings down Bugbrooke way my folks made it to the Cotswold Wildlife Park today and great time was had by all. Very nice place – particularly since it’s not over-run by touirists (horah for the rain). Arlo went to town (OK not literally) on the train that runs around the park, he pointed at monkeys, he watched the gibbons and he loved the puddles.

We had to distract him from the train with small fluffy goats and chasing my dad who’d run away with the pushchair. Feel breathless just laughing at him let alone keep up with his dashing around.

Yesterday saw Ian and Helen and Brian at the cafe and Arlo was in seventh heaven cos not only did Ian sit next to him as instructed, Ian produced a small laptop computer on whch he could view the In the Night Gardon website. He shoots he scores!

We also went around the Organic market in Bristol while the heavens opened and the rain shot down. I discovered my hat was indeed entirely waterproof while the SuperDry jacket does NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about stopping clothes underneath it from getting wet. However, it did redeem itself by drying out and becoming Superdry in a matter of minutes during a break in the weather. 

NOW I understand…