Whoops, it's November and I havent posted for over a month.  I havent been too busy, more like too lazy.  Been a bit fed up so haven't felt like blogging. 

Anyway here's the update...it was the October holidays for 2 weeks and during the first week I held a Boden clothing party which Lily enjoyed immensely as she got to dress up in lots of different clothes.  To be fair, so did I and when Angela came round we dressed up some more and then the next morning when Tom came down for breakfast he caught me and Lily dressing up again and just rolled his eyes and said "you're not still dressing up are you?"  But of course we were - what fool female wouldn't take the opportunity to try on lots of gorgeous clothes in the comfort of your own home!

 A couple of days after the party Tom, Lily and I headed off down south for a few days to visit schools.  We had an unscheduled stop at Gran & Grampy's in Lenzie en route due to an unfortunate vomitting incident -  so a shower and quick clothes wash and change was required before we could resume our journey.  And no, it wasn't me that vommed.
After that we sped off down the M6 arriving in Hereford some 6 hours later and found somewhere to stay the night.  The Green Dragon is one of the oldest building in Hereford and appears to have the original floorboards - what a noisy place, I hardly slept a wink, the chap in the room above us appeared to wander around his room all night until about 3am when the floorboards finally fell silent and I finally fell asleep somewhat later.  On Friday we visited Hereford Cathedral School and got shown all around it and then we went on to our booked accommodation in a small village outside Worcester called Leigh Sinton.  Saturday we had our visit to The Kings School in Worcester and got shown around the school by a lovely boy called Ben who is in Year 9.  After that we had some lunch and then drove over to Eastnor Castle for the afternoon where we planned to play in the adventure playground, get lost in the maze and generally have some outdoor fun.  Alas, we got there and it was closed for bloody winter.  A major disappointment to our plans.  Anyway, we went back to the house and pottered around for the rest of the day.  On Sunday we drove an hour down the road to visit with Helen and her kids for lunch and the afternoon, it was lovely to catch up again and nice to know if we move there will be a friendly face not too far away.
Monday was our last school visit and this one was RGS Worcester, then back in the car and up the road, this time for a planned stop at Gran & Grampy's minus the vomit.  Result.
Mum & I went for a quick shop on Tuesday morning without the children, double result and then we headed back home to St Andrews for the rest of the holidays.    Tom & I made some tooth rotting tablet

 and then Tom & Nick went hill walking again.  It was a very windy day.

but they appear to have had fun despite the weather. 

We have now decided to go for Kings School and have taken the step of registering with them for next year.  So it looks like we will be selling up and moving sometime next summer hopefully for the last time.