Éowyn’s Ninth Birthday

Less than three weeks after Amélie celebrated her seventh birthday our eldest celebrated her ninth!  Yes, nine!  Éowyn has now entered the realms of ‘middle childhood’.  Not as dramatic as it could sound and certainly not as dramatic as the stages to come.  Middle childhood is that flux state betwixt child and young adult, before puberty and teenage hormones take over and that is most defnitely an apt description of our eldest at the moment.
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The end of the summer holidays and a wedding in Norfolk

Incredibly belated, indeed it is not just the end of the summer holidays as we are now, officially, in Autumn.  I thought that last year’s summary of the summer holidays was late, I have surpassed myself this year.  Genuinely, I had second thoughts as to whether I should continue with the write-up as some of the events described below happened nearly two months ago.  However, I know, that a lot of my ‘readers’ are only here for the photos and there are some nice photos so I have decided that I would put the effort in and describe the events that lead to them. Read more