Took Ellen off to rugby this morning while Ted went off to play a friendly for his new team. What a fantastic experience. They have been doing tag rugby every Friday since half term and tried tackling two weeks ago. Today they played a full contact game against Perrin's school. They were magnificent and Ellen, after initial nerves, made a couple of decent runs and tackles on the wing. As you can see from the photos, some of the girls are a little scary so I was very proud of my little girl.
It has been a challenging few months with Ellen, walking a tightrope of teenage behaviour and moving back to the UK. On the whole I think Mrs N and I have handled it OK but she has the capacity to wind us up to snapping point every now and then. Today proved that she is capable of so much more than sitting in her room swapping vacuous texts and iChats with all her 700 best friends.
