Swimming

Here's our swimming pool.
(Well, it's not ours, but it's the one we always go to, if you see what I mean......)

It is not very big, and was very quiet this afternoon because it is getting towards the end of the season, getting a bit chilly for most - but the littles are still pretty hardy from their early days in North Shropshire, so they are still up for a swim.

It looks really quiet and tranquil, doesn't it, but it gets very busy on hot days. Imagine 12 sunscreened toddlers and their various grown ups swimming, jumping, splashing, squabbling over inflatable toys, gossiping about favoured cafes and planned strikes by the Maoists.

Today, the boys fell asleep in the car on the way down and were clearly still knackered from the 5 hours of trekking (in the rain) yesterday, so we let them snooze in the shade for an hour or so...... Unsurprisingly, Noah woke up as soon as the pot of Masala tea arrived. (And biscuits.)







Big sister was, meanwhile, swimming entire lengths under water, then gecko-ing on the sun-warmed slabs of marble around the pool's edge.





Life here is hard at the moment - I am talking myself down from panicking and running for the airport sometimes (often) - so, focussing on the positive is helping - a therapy.

Dhulikhel

Around the Ring Road

So, we're back in the 'Du, and have been for a month or so, but just BUSY starting / resuming school, and having our family from Canada staying.

Oh, and I have also been working for the last 4 weeks.

Since I have clearly demonstrated myself to be totally crap at the 'catch up' thing, I am just going to move on and stick to my New School Year resolution of showing more of KTM in the blog. Lists and background is on my to do....

Here are some pics of Kathmandu Ring Road....










And here are two of the Greenerlets a la 1975, sans car seats, au naturel, snoozing on the back seat of the Maruti Gypsy.......




And a windswept Eve, who'll still hang her head out of the window like a dog given half a chance.....

Chieveley Motorway Services - The Toilet

We did quite a few trips between Portsmouth and Shropshire while we were in the UK - Chieveley's where we stop on the way back down. I guess the kids felt quite at home when we stopped there for the third time. Thom's idea - "Take photo, Mummy." So I did.

More Photo Catch-up-ness

Greeners vs Bristowes......
Cousin Jack made Noah-Boots a Kung Fu Panda mask:



While Callad taught Thom all about sparring......









Sharing love with the Potters.......

My best friend from school is a whiz with girls' hair. I am so glad that Eve has at least one example of female grooming to look up to as I favour the hairstyle-by-neglect method.

A Walk in the Woods

This was a few weeks ago now - I'm playing catch up. Harv's knee, freshly out of surgery was just about up to a wee walk throughthe woods in Weston Rhyn, where we were staying in our old house for a few days, (where the kids loved catching up with the neighbours and kept demanding visits to Cheryl's). It was one of my favourite days in our UK trip, including the stinging nettles (which I haven't seen in Kathmandu), and some errant raspberries that somehow, happily made their way into the woods, and were thriving. The fact that we scoffed loads will just mean the canes produce more, right.....?

Eve wanted here photo taken witrh the thistle because 'it's a very British flower, isn't it'...

Oswestry Revisited - Photo Catch-up

What a fantastic park this is! This time Eve came along too. They solved the maze - twice, then went to find out what was making all the noise in the rosebay willowherb. Crickets.






Here they are at Jo's house, where we stayed for two fabulous, fun, and overall precious nights. This was a game of 'families' in the sitting room one morning. Apparently everyone is asleep.......





And here's Noah in the waiting area at Main Outpatients at BCH. Not too concerned about his cleft review, as you can see....




And finally, some treasure caught in Canoe Lake.... I think there are a couple of weeny crabs hiding under all those fishies....