The beginning of the end

And so the evening begins. A long day of shopping, waiting for my purse to arrive in the post, preparing food for the evening and tiring the kids out so they'd leave us alone in the evening. Then there was lots of fizz, food and fun: the name game, a quiz, including some extraordinarily skilful pick-up-song, then after the bells a sing song with our very own house two piece band and a very drunken game of charades in which no-one covered themselves in glory.

I made it to bed at 5am, but I was a long way from being the last.

2011 was always looking likely to be an odd year for us, but I very much feel that we can move forward now and really start building our new life.