Day 202 - Sam Loyd's Dissection

Wednesday November 4th

Alice walked down to the bus stop with me and I headed off to Soton for a day of Maths. It was a very enjoyable day and I got a B for my assignment. Yeah! Spent all day on geometry and Ruth gave us loads of great ideas including measuring dolphin fins using triangles...who would have thought?

I still haven;t organised my second placement so agreed with Andy to link up with him and his school in Basingstoke. I had to leave early and almost missed Alice but got there just in time and delivered her to ballet and football on time AND managed a run in between. Ted cooked burritos which were a BIG hit.

Exhausted tonight but feeling good. First night sleeping on my own in the new house without Mrs N. Boo Hoo.

Day 88 - Broken Car and New House

Monday July 13th

Nasty squeaking noise on the new car so take it in to the garage and it turns out a spring has gone in the rear suspension so no car for a day. At least we don't have to pay for it. Went and picked up the keys for the new house. We sat and admired it for a while before heading home on the bus. Not a bad journey at all, about 10 minutes. We will have to work out timings for school as I have no desire to stand on the bus with my or any other kids on the way to school every morning. Unfortunately those hills get in the way of a nice leisurely cycle ride in every day

I keep pinching myself that we have this magnificent new house. It was the first one we saw and I keep expecting someone to take it away from us. It feels much much scarier than having a mortgage. Somehow if the bank owns most of it, it doesn't feel such a huge responsibility but this time every brick, every pipe, every tile has been paid for by 20 years hard graft. Very different