Not your average 16 year old

Emily is 16 today.


And she's not here - she's in Germany on a school History trip. Off they went at stupid o'clock this morning. I pity the staff I really do - just four of them here for a pizza party and the noise level was off the scale. If you flew Heathrow to Munich at around 7 am this morning I do apologise.


We didn't really get what it said on the tin when Emily arrived. For starters I thought she was going to be another boy, and she was supposed to be of average weight. She doesn't know the meaning of the word and weighed in from the off at just shy of 10lbs. And obviously she had some out of the ordinary plumbing and has developed an out of the ordinary attitude to life.


Happy Birthday Em. Enjoy. I know you will.

Still busy...

Work is a bit full on at the moment - it's the end of term and whilst the rest of school are winding down the admin side cranks up a notch or two. It's great though, I like being busy and I have seven weeks holiday to look forward to.

Emily will be well travelled this summer - she's just got back from her Geography field trip, we have two weeks in Devon booked and then she goes from there pretty much straight to Portugal. In the Autumn she's off to Berlin with her school history group. The Portugal trip was a bit of a surprise. She applied to be part of the Children's Heart Federation Teen Forum - got accepted and the first thing they're doing is a team building jolly in the sunshine. I expect there'll be photos later. I notice that the blogged photos have been rather thin on the ground lately so I'll try to rectify that soonish.

Running is going well - two good runs last week, one of them in blazing sunshine resulting in one side of my face being browner than the other!