SO this is a quick potted history of life after dover and before calais. At the time, I couldn’t blog as either playing with the girls, sorting stuff out for SB or panicking at the enormity of what we had agreed too! We came back from our dover holiday, and immediately SB was off! She had a PGL holiday with her great friend Maddy from Patch of Puddles to go to, possibly their last one – is it 2 or 3 they have done now? They had told us they wanted a bit of adventure and to get the train there by themselves. This turned out to not have exactly been communicated between them entirely 
so Max went with them.
I think they had a great time 
for SB it was modified by badly twisting her ankle on the first day 
and not being able to walk properly meant she couldn’t do all the activities and I had to ring them several times to get her medication, as they had confiscated the stash of paracetamol and ibuprofen i had given her [hidden in a packet of plasters] next time she won’t let them see the painkillers! she is more than sensible enough to be able to sort out analgesia. Anyway, when she returned she seemed to have had a fab time, made friends and loved spending more time with Maddy, who is now at school, so not such an opportunity to meet. [and of course none for 6 months whilst sb in france!]
During that week we had BB at home, mostly minecrafting! We had Josie from Patch of puddles for a sleepover with BB, as they are very much great buds, and again with going to school etc, BB will see less of J in the future, so seemed a making hay whilst the sun shines moment I think they had a great time, even with a fair bit of minecraft I do have pics on my phone, but it is refusing to talk with computers or flickr, so not sure when I will be able to add! On the weds we had loads of friends over – merry et al from PoP, Jax and co from liveotherwise and TheBabs and family, ostensibly to do some history – theme Napoleon – but mostly to play with each other and have a great time together as next year a bit of a year of changes. The kids seemed v happy together, so we adults mostly chatted in the garden
SB back at home we spent the time just being together as a family, baking, crafting, talking, laughing, loving and playing games. Also manically sorting her wardrobe for 6 months in france, making sure all weather extremes covered. Deep Breath! We spent a day with kfish saying goofbye to 6, who finishing her en famille exchange was back to France. we nearly forgot to get ready for a party…
my dad paid a flying visit
and so did a bat!
we had our annual summer party, this year themed as france. loads of lovely friends visited, to chat, say goodbye to sb, give us comforting words of wisdom and we had a great time. Thankyou all it was a great way to spend her last weekend in England .kids played some complex whodunnit mystery game, we adults sat too near the food and chatted…
